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Remember how shocking it was to many in 1995 that Newt Gingrich, the Speaker of the freaking House, gave air to the evidence-free conspiracy theory that the Clinton's had Vince

In 1952 a constellation of racist and anti-semitic far right groups, calling themselves "Nationalists," gathered before the GOP convention in Chicago with the hopes of getting their man, General MacArthur,

This was the scene at the White House four years ago today, when news of the House vote to repeal Obamacare came through.As one person on Twitter put it: Like

The latest Fox News/Ron DeSantis talking point about contemporary anti-racism being "a nefarious Marxist plot to brainwash our children" recycles a very old, right wing formulation. Here it is expressed

This is a book by Republicans who bemoaned the right wing takeover of the party. It was written in 1965. A substantial portion of today's Never Trump conservatives were not

The key to understanding the surging far right is not the ideas they espouse, it’s the political culture they build.https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/30/extremists-recruiting-culture-community/ This is what I tried to get at w

Those screenshots are from The New Right Papers of 1982. The contributor list is pretty interesting. Robert Hoy became a collaborator of David Duke's in the late 80s and early

It’s become cliche to refer to the MAGA movement as a cult. But in the 1980s, a major funder of the further right segment of the GOP coalition was the

If there's one thing that unites center-left and center-right people it's taking pleasure in making fun of the lack of intelligence of people on the far right. I get it.

In 1968, a TPUSA-like organization was created that sought to persuade college students to channel their frustrations with their professors and the university into right wing activism. It was called

I suspect statements like this sound fairly familiar to you if you've been listening to conservative media or politicians lately. "Those closed-minded, totalitarian Marxist professors who dehumanize those they disagree

This is a thorough(and entertaining!) debunking of the “PC wars” of the late 80s and early 90s. Turns out so many of the “PC out of control” stories from that