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When Red Mike Hylan swept into City Hall—Mitchel, who had been elected in 1913 by the largest plurality in New York’s history, was turned out in 1917 by an even larger plurality—Progressivism in the city was dead.

For many right-wingers, there also came a realization that Andrew Breitbart was correct. “Politics is downstream from culture,” and electing the correct people was the consequence of the right strategies and not the goal. One of the great techniques used by the evangelical left is its claim that all decent, sane people are basically progressives at

Yet the weakness of the moderates’ influence, this time on the Democratic side, was quickly revealed. Over the next few months, the news was monopolized by partisans on the left, who tried to redefine their party as champions of expanded and progressive government—with new entitlements for families, a “green new deal” for the world, a debt jubilee

After the Civil War, African-Americans had remained loyal to the party that had freed them—the Republican Party of Lincoln—for more than half a century, from Reconstruction to Depression. When the Depression struck, however, the heartlessness of Republicans—and of another Republican President, Hoover—changed that, particularly after the arrival in

The B-movie actor had won by a landslide on the back of discontent fueled by high inflation, energy prices and interest rates; a backlash against galloping social change on race and sex; and frustration that Washington looked weak abroad.

In 1958, Fred Koch became one of eleven original members of the John Birch Society, the archconservative group best known for spreading far-fetched conspiracy theories about secret Communist plots to subvert America.

three decades since the FCC revoked the Fairness Doctrine (which required TV and radio stations to devote some of their programming to important issues of the day and air opposing views on those issues)

The term Alt-Right was not yet a thing, certainly not like it would become within a few short years. The biggest and most innovative name by far in this internet scene was Mencius Moldbug, the pseudonym of programmer Curtis Yarvin. Moldbug’s blog was called “Unqualified Reservations,” and it was as remarkable for its radical ideology as for