Modern American conservatism began as a revolt against Eisenhower. That's key to understanding it.
@jledbetter Of course they denied it - it's absurd as a factual point but works as myth: it speaks to larger truth (or supposed truth).
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@HeerJeet Transformation you describe is at least as much psychological as political. Much JBS propaganda reprinted stuff from the '30s. -
@jledbetter Funnily enough, in my PhD thesis I actually take your side of the argument and root conservatism in anti-New Deal.
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@PhillipsPasha@HeerJeet I thought it was mostly symbolic/convenient, don't know too much more about Birch than that. - Show replies
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