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Bob Packwood and the Mirage of the Moderate Republican

Throughout his 60 year career in politics, Senator Bob Packwood was the quintessential moderate Republican. Like the other leading lights in the Oregon Republican Party from the 1960s into the 1980s--Governor, then Senator Mark Hatfield (1958-1996), Governor Tom McCall (1966-1974), Governor Vic Atiyeh (1978-1986), Secretary of

A Guest Post on a Little Known Founding Father of the Christian Nationalist Tradition: Verne Kaub, Willis Carto, and the 1950s Protestant Conservative Underground

by Alex McPhee-Browne (amm256@cam.ac.uk) The study of the post-WWII US Far Right is a vibrant scholarly field these days for obvious and unfortunate reasons. Though the topic itself can be quite a downer, one great benefit of working on this topic for me has been

Recommended Reading: Leah Sottile's Recent Article about the Students in my History of the Far Right Class

This semester I taught a course on the History of the Far Right in the US. We were lucky to have one of the Pacific Northwest's sharpest contemporary chroniclers and interpreters of the far right, Leah Sottile, spend a day with us. The piece by Leah, "The

Slow Knowledge in the Age of Hot Takes: Some Thoughts on Historians as Pundits

Last Tuesday afternoon my notifications exploded with hundreds of sudden new friend requests from strangers on Facebook, new followers on Bluesky, and new subscribers to my (now abandoned) Substack and this (currently ongoing) Ghost newsletter. At first I thought "oh shit, some MAGA influencer with a huge following just

"Basically Church Type Stuff:" Old Timey Christian Americanism and the Rhizomatic History of American Fascism

Or, the crucial but sometimes fuzzy distinction between a) being a White American Christian, and b) being influenced by a violent, White Christian Supremacist variety of conspiratorial, antisemitic American Fascism known as "Christian Identity." I find myself worrying about the threat of democracy-corroding political violence much more

PragerU's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History

The outfit that's making historical content for Trump's White House and America's youth has a history of doing history that has a fairly loose relationship with the truth

In 2003 a Collector of Kooky Cold War Shit Got to Rummage Around in Walter Huss's Library: Here's Her Story

A window into Walter's world in its twilight years, and some thoughts about why people like me and that bookseller (and maybe you too?) find right wing kooks like Huss so morbidly compelling

Walter Huss's Political Paranoia, and My Own

What if they really were/are out to get you as they transform the country into an authoritarian hellscape?

Why Tim Walz's "mind your own damn business" message is kryptonite to the MAGA movement

What if those people who are different from you aren't part of some nefarious "Communist" conspiracy, but are just people in a free country who are [heaven forefend!] different from you?

Walter Huss Knew That if Fascism Ever Came to America, it would happen via the hostile takeover of a major political party

On American Fascism's parasitic relationship to "The Party of Lincoln"

Normal people in an authoritarian party

On the Oregon Republican response to the attempt on Donald Trump's life

The Heritage Foundation's President has said that the next Trump Administration will be a 2nd American Revolution. Here's a transcript of their Declaration of Independence.

When in the course of tremendous human events like nobody has ever seen before...