Jan 6 Hearings Follow-Along & Commentary Thread (Starts Jun 9, 2022)

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Demographics and the GOP’s Reaction to Long-term Trends: what is really going on

I thought about this thread while I was reading this article. It is a review of three books detailing the source of the current state of the American right. The first book (_A World After Liberalism, Matthew Rose) is about the intellectual underpinnings of the right; how various racist and ethnocentric thinkers going back all the way to Spengler developed ideas that appeal to many in the west who resist cultural and demographic change. Despite their lack of a mass following, their concepts …

The third book of the three-book review I cited in this post has some insight into the psychology of the Republican staffer under the Trump regime. Also, Barton Gellman had a recent article in The Atlantic online about Flynn in particular.