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The Nixon administration was basically forced to take up liberal policies domestically to have a free hand in foreign policy. A bag of resentments he rose to power by appealing to the reactionary sentiments of the "great silent majority" who didn't like stuff the hippies and the new left were up to.
— Nov 18, 2025 05:52PM
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Paige McLoughlin
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The disaster of Reagan and the unwinding of the New Deal. The author is more upbeat about it, but from the vantage point of Trump's fascism, the installation of Reaganomics and neoliberalism was an unmitigated disaster in the long run.
— Nov 18, 2025 06:29PM
Paige McLoughlin
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The rise of the new right, be it focus on the family, to Richard Viguerie and direct mail to the California tax revolt in 1978, to the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980.
— Nov 18, 2025 06:24PM
Paige McLoughlin
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Feminism and the family values backlash against it of the seventies. Seems like the progressive yearning always seems to be hit with a reactionary backlash.
— Nov 18, 2025 06:21PM
Paige McLoughlin
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The outlaw and Punk Rock music of the seventies.
— Nov 18, 2025 06:16PM
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Carter's inflation woes and the crisis of confidence.
— Nov 18, 2025 06:13PM
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The rise of Sunbelt and the rise of conservative politics and redneck chic of the period.
— Nov 18, 2025 06:09PM
Paige McLoughlin
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A lot of religious activity, be it Christian Revival to hippie communes to various cults, and weird groups.
— Nov 18, 2025 06:06PM
Paige McLoughlin
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The chapter opens with mentions of two shows. All in the Family with Archie Bunker and The Jeffersons is about an upwardly mobile black family. Both existed at the time with the Civil Rights movement and the white backlash over affirmative action and busing.
— Nov 18, 2025 05:58PM
Paige McLoughlin
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starts off in the late sixties and breakdown of consensus and rise of the new left and youth dissatisfaction with institutions like marriage, and at the same time, the rise of the right seen in the Wallace campaign and the bible belt merging with the sun belt growth.
— Nov 18, 2025 05:41PM
