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.
