There's a particular narrative about conservative radicalization that centers the inability of the right in the 1980s to completely impose its agenda -- especially around issues like abortion -- which misses how this is a cyclical phenomenon in American politics.
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I think that’s true. Nixon I suspect is the exception because a) the far right openly preferred Wallace, and b) in the context of the late ‘60s/early ‘70s an actual communist revolution—as opposed to liberal statism as the path to socialism—appeared in the offing.
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