Wednesday, July 27, 2016

 

Learning from the Right

In 1989, UC Berkeley published Jerome Himmelstein's study To the Right about the transformation of American conservatism in the Reagan years (1980s), that led to the present influence of Christian white nationalism in the GOP. In a nutshell, they began building a grassroots movement by taking over local school boards, then local governments, and eventually state governments. Now, they are influential in both Congress and the RNC. It didn't happen overnight.

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