1. This @RuleandRuin article arguing that liberal historians have done a poor job of covering conservatism is getting a lot of attention but I think very weak.https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/09/09/liberals-dont-know-much-about-conservative-history-219742 …
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12. Here are my deeper reflections on why the history of conservatism is too important to be left to conservatives.https://newrepublic.com/article/151127/conservatives-know-much-conservative-history …
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13. I have something more to say about that
@RuleandRuin piece, although I realize I'm risking beating a dead horse. I think the larger political project of the piece is to recuperate a good, moderate GOP that no longer exists.Show this thread -
14. You see this a lot, not just among conservatives but also centrists & liberals (including Obama & Hillary Clinton): a positing of 2 GOPs: a good, moderate, intellectual GOP just interested in low taxes & military spending versus a bad racist Trumpian GOP
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@RuleandRuin is of course the world's authority on moderate Republicans (his book is very good! Should be widely read!). But I wonder if he doesn't understate how powerful Trumpian currents were in GOP since at least the 1930s.Show this thread
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