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Nicole Hemmer is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt, author of Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics, and cofounder of the Washington Post‘s Made by History section.
The right’s success is not a shadowy conspiracy; it has been achieved out in the open, largely through ordinary politics. Much of it can be countered the same way.
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