1. I want to return to the @EricLevitz piece because it really underscores that the GOP war on democracy is one of choice. It raises the crucial question of why a party would decided to shrink the electorate instead of enlarging their share:https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/06/gop-voting-laws-texas-sb7-war-on-democracy.html …
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What's your theory about why the Buchanan faction was relatively quiet in national GOP politics for 25 yrs btw 1992 and 2015? Next 4 primary contests (96, 2000, 08, 12) had no real Buchananite challenger; Kemp was on one ticket, Ryan another. Palin is closest, I guess.
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I think Perot absorbed most of the Buchanan energy on a national scale in 1990s, then Bush's popularity with evangelicals limited Buchananite growth in natural grass roots. After that it comes back in various forms: Palin, Huckabee, Santorum, Trump.
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I’d go further and say it’s at least a partial victory for Lee Rockwell and Murray Rothbard's 90s-era call for "paleo-libertarianism," just with less *peace*
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