stevestory
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But I think that in itself suggested a new turn, but the last two years have made it clear to me that this turn is not just a two-year or four-year shift, but that it really is the end of an epoch. While working on the New Yorker piece, I was reading Kevin Phillips’ book, “The Emerging Republican Majority,” from 1969, which was the seminal document in charting the era of conservative dominance. It’s a really brilliant book. In it he says that American politics has this way of going through 32-year or 36-year periods of dominance by one or another ideology. Jacksonian democracy in the early 19th century. Lincolnian Republicanism in the late 19th century. Industrial Republicanism in the early 20th. New Deal liberalism in the mid-20th. And he said the next cycle will be a kind of sunbelt conservatism. And he was absolutely right. But the interesting thing is that conservatism lasted just a few years longer that in those other periods. Reading that, Phillips made it sort of click: “Yes, this isn’t just two years or four years we’re talking about. We’re looking at a 40-year reign that’s come to an end.” |
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