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Democracy Awakened (with Heather Cox Richardson)
Sep 28, 2023
Heather Cox Richardson, a Boston College history professor and author, joins Preet to discuss her book 'Democracy Awakening'. They explore the origins of the terms 'liberal' and 'conservative', a 1937 anti-FDR manifesto, and moving beyond the chaos of the Trump years. Also, a bombshell ruling against Trump in a fraud case and Senator Menendez indicted on bribery charges.
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- The origins of American conservatism can be traced back to a 1930s manifesto that aimed to dismantle the New Deal and promote states' rights and home rule, laying the foundation for the transformation of the Republican Party under the Trump years.
- American history shows that fast change often leads to immediate success, but can result in complacency and the emergence of new narratives and movements.
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The Origins of American Conservatism
The podcast episode explores the origins of American conservatism in the 1930s when Republicans who opposed President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal contemplated an alliance to oppose it. They drafted a manifesto that aimed to dismantle the New Deal's business regulations, social safety nets, and federal government promotion of infrastructure. The manifesto's ideas of tearing down the New Deal and relying on states' rights and home rule were later embraced by movement conservatives, such as Barry Goldwater in the 1960s. Ronald Reagan played a significant role in making movement conservative ideology palatable to ordinary Americans, with his use of political technology to create a false image rooted in individualism and opposition to socialism. This through line from the conservative manifesto to Goldwater to Reagan laid the foundation for the further transformation of the Republican Party under the Trump years.
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