The Republican Thread: Conservatism in the Twentieth Century | Featuring Jacob Heilbrunn
How to Fix Democracy
English - June 04, 2024 12:55 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratingsNews Society & Culture Philosophy democracy dictators illiberal liberal populism technology Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In conversation with Andrew Keen, the American historian Jacob Heilbrunn, outlines the continuous history of the close association of conservative views and the Republican Party in the early to Mid-Twentieth Century. He describes the party's support of strong anti-immigrant racial differences in the 1920s, hostility to the New Deal, support of the anti-Communist campaign of Senator McCarthy in the 1950s, and support of Donald Trump and his isolationist perspectives, now and in the recent past.