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    No "Gipper" To Save GOP This Time

    FEBRUARY 9, 2013 12:02PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: politics, economics, ronald reagan, barry goldwater, tea party, republican establishment, republican party, 1964 election, richard hofstadter, pseudo-conservative, right wing, new deal, eisenhower administration, extremism no vice, great communicator, bobby jindal, eric cantor, mark rubio, paul ryan, medicaid, vouchers, social security, evil empire, tax hikes

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    Obama wants to "punish success?" Give me a break

    JULY 27, 2012 10:01AM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: health care, gun control, abortion, plutocrats, free market, public sector unions, richard hofstadter, nlrb, epa, affordable care act, colonial america, gordon wood, conservative media, national reivew, fox news, keynesian stimulus, fiscal policy, exotic derivatives, libor, predatory corporate raiders, capitalism, corporate contributions, citizens united, supreme court, voter disenfranchisement, labor, manufacturing, oligarchy, george romney, tax returns, democracy, think progress, paranoid style, conspiracy theory, big government, income tax, punish success, president obama, elizabeth warren, scott brown, mitt romney, welfare queens, republican party, ronald reagan, economics, politics

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    Rick Santorum and the Closing of the Conservative Mind

    FEBRUARY 29, 2012 3:09PM

    By Ted Frier


    Topics: liberalism, dennis prager, anti-intellectualism, richard hofstadter, christian right, lawrence welk, godliness, morality, liberal arts, good, evil, republican party, ayn rand, atlas shrugged, nazis, national review, william f. buckley, l. brent bozell, barry goldwater, freedom, virtue, francisco franco, fascism, liberal bias, truth

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    Reading the 2008 Election

    SEPTEMBER 18, 2008 12:24PM

    By Michael Fox


    Topics: books, john mccain, mccain, obama, politics, presidential election, mccain campaign, republicans, barack obama, sarah palin, palin, religion, republican party, mccain-palin, fascism, elections, mccain-palin campaign, karl rove, history, harry braverman, richard hofstadter, wilhelm reich, herbert marcuse, liberalism, anti-intellectualism, intellectuals, labor, work, american politics, american history, antiintellectualism

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