![]() ![]() No history of modern conservatism I’m aware of finds much significance in the 22,000 Nazi sympathizers who rallied for Hitler at Madison Square Garden in February 1939, presided over by a giant banner of General George Washington that stretched almost all the way to the second deck, capped off by a menacing eagle insignia. Other bodies, however, are buried closer to home. I’ve done my best to begin the work-thinking through, for instance, Trumpism’s connection to fascism, a political tradition not heretofore considered all that relevant in the American context. Buckley and Strom Thurmond and Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan just doesn’t cut it any longer. Our received narrative of the movement encompassed by Barry Goldwater and William F. Now, historians must begin to consider alternate genealogies of the American right: lineages for the orange-haired monster that no one saw coming. Then along comes Donald Trump to scramble the whole goddamned script. ![]() I thought I knew what I was talking about. ![]() I’ve read almost every major book on the subject. I’ve been studying the history of American conservatism full time since 1997-almost 20 years now. ![]()
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