26. Reaganite cultural warriors were often Cold War Liberals nostalgic for 1950s consensus: Reagan himself, Allan Bloom, Bennett.
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27. What's most helpful about
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28. What's interesting for me is where this leaves the cultural right. I think they know they no longer can impose Consensus as once did.
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29. Looks like the Cultural Right is embracing the fate of being one niche market in a field of many competitors.
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30. I will now pass the baton to
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@Richard_Florida's tweets can be found starting here:https://twitter.com/Richard_Florida/status/520260343520821249 …Jeet Heer added,
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32. Should add there are lots of good comments on my twitter feed -- ones from
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33. Final though: LBJ's Second Reconstruction was attempt to build a stronger Consensus by incorporating Southern blacks.
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32. What destroyed 1950s/early 1960s consensus was reactionary opposition to 2nd Reconstruction (Goldwater and the New Right).
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@StephenMarche With all respect to Bellow & Roth -- they are not historians. I defer to evidence presented by @rickperlstein
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@HeerJeet With all respect to@rickperlstein he is not Bellow or Roth.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@StephenMarche@rickperlstein I doubt Bellow or Roth spent more than 5 minutes thinking about Goldwater movement. Rick has researched it.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes - Show replies
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