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Teaches American History at Willamette University. Wrote a book on Tom Paine and the Americans who hated/loved him. Writing a book on nostalgia in 19th C Am.

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    Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 18

    In 1970 Tom McCall warned of "an extremist takeover" of the GOP, declaring that "no party can play footsie with radicals & extremists...Never accommodate that far, distant right unless you contemplate disaster. Once they get their nose under the tent they want the whole shebang."pic.twitter.com/5Urfh1mPk4

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      2. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 18

        Here are clearer screenshots of the article. McCall was referring of the failed efforts of Walter Huss to take over the Oregon GOP. Huss failed in 1970 and again in 1976, but succeeded in 1978.pic.twitter.com/k8XgIHddWA

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      3. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 18

        Most of the platform proposals put forward by Huss's faction narrowly failed, but they pointed toward the GOP future in a host of ways.pic.twitter.com/p0TuvsBUz1

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      4. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 18

        They wanted to "free a person from any legal liability for his actions to protect his home and family or to help anyone threatened with violence." They wanted to eliminate all teacher tenure laws.

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      5. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 18

        They wanted to require parents in a school district to vote on what type of sex ed classes should be taught. They also "opposed any form of gun control" and said that "dangerous pesticides shouldn't be barred from use until there is 'conclusive evidence'" of harm.

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      6. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 18

        Seth Cotlar Retweeted Seth Cotlar

        More on Huss's backstory here.https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1394175618170855424?s=20 …

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        Seth Cotlar @SethCotlar
        In 1958, a rabid anti-communist activist named Walter Huss set up shop at his "Freedom Center" in Portland. In 1961 he began printing his own newspaper, The National Eagle. It's quite a trip. Arthur Schlessinger, for example, was apparently a communist. pic.twitter.com/PKcKrXsl4Z
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      7. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 18

        Seth Cotlar Retweeted Seth Cotlar

        Some snippets from the newspaper Huss produced in the 1960s, The National Eagle.https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1394309230811746304?s=20 …

        Seth Cotlar added,

        Seth Cotlar @SethCotlar
        September 1962. The [Portland] National Eagle. In the name of preserving American freedom, the nation's school children must be taught to love America and the flag, and to have "drilled into them" the correct understanding of the founding principles. pic.twitter.com/riZOFnAoTb
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      8. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 18

        In 1966 Huss challenged liberal Republican Mark Hatfield in the GOP Senatorial primary. This endorsement of Huss, the populist outsider who will shake up Washington, might ring a few bells. [Albany] Greater Oregonian, 20 May 1966.pic.twitter.com/PC2YZyfw1m

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      9. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        This thread has gotten a lot of traction outside of Oregon, so I feel obliged to add this article about Tom McCall, one of many moderate, even liberal, Oregon Republicans from the 1970s and 1980s.https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/mccall_thomas_l/ …

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      10. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        Seth Cotlar Retweeted Seth Cotlar

        I'm interested in Walter Huss because his story points to the long, protracted struggle within the GOP to turn it into a party of the far right. Huss was working away at that starting in 1958. As were the folks who produced the media identified here.https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1392921857414795268?s=20 …

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        Seth Cotlar @SethCotlar
        This points to a huge problem in our public memory/understanding of the history of conservatism. We generally think 1960s/70s conservatism = Bill Buckley and the National Review. But look at these lists compiled by Group Research. pic.twitter.com/GqQwCnpAnF
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      11. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        Despite Huss's efforts, Oregon in the 1970s had a Republican Senator who was a staunch critic of the Vietnam War (Hatfield) and a GOP Governor (McCall) who advocated for very progressive environmental regulations.

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      12. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        Huss very much represented the GOP's future, while McCall and Hatfield are now long discarded parts of the GOP's past. Neither would be remotely welcome in today's GOP. The point is this, parties change over time. The future of the GOP depends upon what the party leaders do.

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      13. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        In the 1970s, most establishment Republicans in Oregon dismissed Huss and his supporters as "nuts" and "kooks." They did not take them seriously enough as a threat to their vision of the GOP. And now the state GOP nominates QAnon supporters for US Senate.

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      14. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        Seth Cotlar Retweeted Seth Cotlar

        But here's the important part. We may scoff at the idea of a QAnon supporter winning a seat in the US Senate. But that candidate got 40% of the vote in 2020. This is why parties matter.https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1388161267777511431?s=20 …

        Seth Cotlar added,

        Seth Cotlar @SethCotlar
        As these 2020 election results show, a ham sandwich with an R after its name can win 40% of the votes. Perkins was the senator from QAnon, and Cross was the Atty Genl candidate w/o a law degree or a BA. Still got 40% of the vote, almost identical to Trump in OR. pic.twitter.com/NdOwCQ1JE7
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      15. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        The 1980s and 90s iteration of Huss's far right politics in Oregon came in the form of anti-gay crusader Lon Mabon. Thx to @AndrewFmOregon for cluing me into this excellent article on Mabon. https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19931003&slug=1724056 …

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      16. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        The history of the American far right from 1950 to the 2000s, right there in a nutshell. From that 1993 article on Mabon.pic.twitter.com/BlkGS1V6eW

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      17. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        Like every bigot ever, Mabon claimed that he didn't have anything *against* gay people, he just built an entire political career around demonizing them and encouraging others to demonize them.pic.twitter.com/ohauofmO0O

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      18. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        Again we see the tell-tale amnesia about the far right. "Where did Mabon and his movement come from?" Well, maybe if people hadn't ignored or dismissed Huss and his followers as "kooks" and "nuts" who don't really represent the GOP, they wouldn't have asked that question.pic.twitter.com/0trNonUyCM

        The Oregon press wasn't sure what to make of the OCA. These people ... they seemed to come out of nowhere ... and yet - they were right here, all the time! And every once in a while they'd write some editorial that really ticked Mabon off and the OCA would declare a boycott. For two years the OCA wouldn't talk to the Salem Statesman-Journal; over time they zipped their lips to papers in Portland and Medford and Astoria too, citing misrepresentation. "I get fairer articles out of the San Francisco Chronicle than I do up here," Mabon says.
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      19. Seth Cotlar‏ @SethCotlar May 19

        This is the Flight 93 mentality we saw articulated by pro-Trump "intellectuals" in 2016. This paragraph was written in 1993, describing the Oregon far right. "What they see [is] their way of life threatened and opportunities to do anything about it fading fast."pic.twitter.com/eOrm8aFFIp

        You wouldn't know it to look at them, but these are people who are scared. A society based on Judeo-Christian traditions has taught a lot of people to harbor certain attitudes, like guns stocked on a wall, and faced with difficult questions, a lot of folks have opted to pick up muskets and aim. Don't tell them about hate crimes or discrimination or studies that show gay and lesbian teens are three times as likely to kill themselves or gay genes or the general futility of programs that strive to "cure" homosexuality. What they see are their children turned, bent, by an over-tolerant society, their way of life threatened and opportunities to do anything about it fading fast.
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