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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Richard Meagher

Rich Meagher teaches politics at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA, and often writes about American conservatism. He blogs about Virginia politics at rvapol.com, and his article “Tax Revolt as a Family Value: How the A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more is Becoming A Free Market Champion” appeared in the winter 2006 issue of Public Eye.

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Political Research Associates

Neoliberal Language Lessons

How right-wing power—along with free-market ideas—shifted from conservative Christians to the Tea Party
Why have social conservatives acted as regular, if not always docile, allies in the Republican Party’s active role in the neoliberal project?
Richard Meagher
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Public Eye

Remembering the New Right

Political Strategy and the Building of the GOP Coalition
The men who created the New Right chose the Republican Party as the party to attach themselves to, even if they didn’t agree with all of the GOP’s ideas, melding conservatives with the Christian Right.
Richard Meagher
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Public Eye

Tax Revolt as a Family Value How the Christian Right is Becoming a Free Market Champion

“Death Should Not Be a Taxable Event.” In August of 2005, this headline appeared on the website of the conservative evangelical Christian organization Focus on the Family. The accompanying article asked Focus members to persuade their Senators to repeal a federal tax on inherited estates.
Richard Meagher
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