Crash Course: The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots

Why do conservatives wrap themselves in the flag so desperately? Maybe because their ideas are un-American Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvd2NqMTYyZDBsZS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdXJpcWpnZXdnYS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsva2FydnplNG1lNy8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvb2pzN3FpOHpyOC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdGNxNnQ2eHg3dC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvanFycTFxYXd3ZS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~ The far right actually hates America: Its dark ideology has foreign roots From Mike Lofgren: Nearly every historically conscious person is able to trace at least some aspects of contemporary conservatism to their roots in early America. Present-day Republican hostility to the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act has a straightforward genealogy: back to Nixon’s "[Southern strategy](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcjZocGJtdnB0My8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~)," then to the [Southern agrarians](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvemJhaXc0eTlmci8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) of the 1930s, to the post-Civil War [Lost Cause movement](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveWI4azVlbnBtMy8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~), then the 1861-1865 secession itself and finally back to [John C. Calhoun](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZG1jdHIxMnNtOC8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) and his own ideological predecessor, [John Randolph of Roanoke](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdTJ6bzgxN242Ni8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~), who still receives [sympathetic treatment](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RDaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZjVkeXoxaWtzMS8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) from the conservative propaganda mill. 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Officials have gone on to review and purge voter rolls, place constitutional amendments on their state ballots and issue executive orders as part of efforts to thwart such voter fraud. [Read more](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvem03YzRlbTcyci8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~). [Subscribe to Salon today](~/AASU4wA~/RgRowAjCP0RnaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZ2I5Zm53bjl3Mi8_bGhfYWlkPTEyMjk1OSZsaF9jaWQ9dm1vZmNpZjNpYSZsaF9lbT10cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NSU0MGdtYWlsLmNvbVcDc3BjQgpmz8KD3WY57ErkUht0cmlzdHJhbWJhbGR3aW44NUBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAACg~) and unlock more benefits! 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