The nascent religious right used a fight against an iris down on racially segregated christian schools to help find that organic basis for the freemarket right in church communities. This is in the the late 19 seventies, when white families pull kids out of public schools and start new private schools called 'christian' schools. The real reason they were doing that was to claim exemptions that religious institutions could have.
Dan interviews historian Kim Phillips-Fein on Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan.
Listen to Kim's Dig interview on Fear City: New York’s Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics thedigradio.com/podcast/fear-city-with-kim-phillips-fein/
Listen to past Dig eps for context on Russia's invasion of Ukraine:
Tony Wood on Russia and Putin: thedigradio.com/podcast/russia-beyond-putin-with-tony-wood
Volodymyr Ishchenko on Ukraine: thedigradio.com/podcast/ukraine-w-volodymyr-ishchenko
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