{"id":456392,"date":"2022-01-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=cc7378341fd259e5846d417a4874b98d"},"modified":"2022-01-04T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T08:00:00","slug":"how-the-radical-right-weaponized-ideology-with-nancy-maclean-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/04\/how-the-radical-right-weaponized-ideology-with-nancy-maclean-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How the radical right weaponized ideology (with Nancy MacLean)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If it seems to you like the ultimate goal of the most extreme conservatives is to undermine democracy and cripple democratic institutions\u2014well, according to historian Nancy MacLean, you\u2019re right. This week, MacLean unpacks the meteoric rise in popularity of the radical right\u2019s ideas, and offers a way forward for progressives, based on lessons from successful social movements throughout American history. This episode was originally released in July 2020.<\/p>


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Nancy MacLean is an award-winning scholar of the twentieth-century U.S. and the William H. Chafe Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. Her book, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right\u2019s Stealth Plan for America, was a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award, and The Nation magazine named it the \u201cMost Valuable Book\u201d of the year.<\/p>


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Twitter: @NancyMacLean5<\/a><\/p>


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Democracy in Chains: https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781101980965<\/a><\/p>


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Website: http:\/\/pitchforkeconomics.com\/<\/a><\/p>

Twitter: @PitchforkEcon<\/a><\/p>

Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics<\/a><\/p>

Nick\u2019s twitter: @NickHanauer<\/a><\/p>\n \n

This post was originally published on Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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