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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The outfit that's making historical content for Trump's White House and America's youth has a history of doing history that has a fairly loose relationship with the truth
Seth Cotlar
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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
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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?
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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?
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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"
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Normal people in an authoritarian party
On the Oregon Republican response to the attempt on Donald Trump's life
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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...
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The Anti-Democratic Urgency Behind the Alitos' Flag Fetish
The "liberal, anti-fascist consensus" of the post-WWII era was always tenuous, but the "rough beast" of Trumpism has turned one of our two major parties directly against it like never before.
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The Information Regime of Authoritarianism, coming soon to a Federal Agency Near You
If the Project 2025 folks get their way, we will all soon live in the sort of dystopian, disorienting information ecosystem the MAGA many already inhabit
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The Art of the Racist Troll, ca. 1987
In 1987 Oregon Republicans upbraided a former party leader (Walter Huss) for acting like a shameless, racist troll. Those were the days, eh?
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William F. Who?: Walter Huss and the American Conservatives Who Couldn't Have Cared Less About Bill Buckley
Some thoughts on the recently released PBS documentary about William F. Buckley
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"Right wing nuts" for Reagan: A conversation between Thomas Zimmer, me, and Ben Bradford, the maker of the "Landslide" podcast
NPR recently released an excellent podcast series on the politics of the 1970s called Landslide. If you haven’t listened to it yet, I highly recommend it. At the very least, it’ll almost certainly revolutionize the way you think about Gerald Ford. [How about that for the hard sell?