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Part Three: John Wayne: A Dude Who Sucked

Behind the Bastards

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Are We Still Ding Is Catan?

John wayne embodied what muscular christianity enthusiasts respected, while also speaking to the more secular, arch capitalist right wingers who sought a more muscular us. All of this swirled together to make him an irresistible front man for republican politicians. In 19 68, he gave a rousing, patriotic address at the republican national convention. When nixon wanted to explain his own views on law and order, he pointed to wayne's chisholm as a model,. A bloody tale of frontier justice in which waine achieved order and revenge through violence. So, ah, yes. He's like the centre of this idea of ike, white, conservative masculinity. As has been for

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