By history, the historical Analysis Section in the washington post. And she writes regularly for number of other publications and a book six years ago, messengers of the right, nicole traced the emergence of conservative media institutions in the midtwentieth century. In her new work, she examines why the Republican Party in the 1990s shifted from kind of conservativism that Ronald Reagan had represented and the previous decade, a conservative wisdom that was optimistic and, popular to a more pessimistic, angrier, even revolutionary conservativism. It was a period nicole, of intensifying partizan conflict when a new fury took hold on the right and when republicans grew less tolerant of dissension in the ranks and began democrats not as opponents but as enemies. What accounted the shift . Well, nicole, a number of factors which shell get into in a minute, but understanding why it happened is important, because it remains very relevant today, as nicole explains. It set republicans on a c
A book six years ago, messengers of the right, nicole traced the emergence of conservative media institutions in the midtwentieth century. In her new work, she examines why the Republican Party in the 1990s shifted from kind of conservativism that Ronald Reagan had represented and the previous decade, a conservative wisdom that was optimistic and, popular to a more pessimistic, angrier, even revolutionary conservativism. It was a period nicole, of intensifying partizan conflict when a new fury took hold on the right and when republicans grew less tolerant of dissension in the ranks and began democrats not as opponents but as enemies. What accounted the shift . Well, nicole, a number of factors which shell get into in a minute, but understanding why it happened is important, because it remains very relevant today, as nicole explains. It set republicans on a course that led eventually to the election of donald trump and to the radicalization of the right. Now were in for a very informati
Welcome to politics prose. Im brad graham, the coowner of the bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and were very delighted this evening to be hosting Nicole Hemmer whos here to talk her new book, the partizans the conservative revolutionaries who remade american politics. Nicoles a political historian and founding director of the new center for the study of the presidency at vanderbilt university. Shes also a cofounder of made by history, the historical Analysis Section in the washington post. And she writes regularly for number of other publications and a book six years ago, messengers of the right, nicole traced the emergence of conservative media institutions in the midtwentieth century. In her new work, she examines why the Republican Party in the 1990s shifted from kind of conservativism that Ronald Reagan had represented and the previous decade, a conservative wisdom that was optimistic and, popular to a more pessimistic, angrier, even revolutionary conservativism. It was
Yogi berra, said prediction is hard to do, especially if its about the future. Im a physicist. We can talk about the future of the universe, billioned of years from now. So let me quote from that other great philosopher, woody allen. Woody allen once said, quote, eternity is an awful long time. Especially toward the end. [laughter] well, you may say to yourself, what does a physicist do, anyway . What have you done for me lately . Well, we physicists invented the trasnsistor, invented the laser, and constructed the First Computers and the internet. We wrote the world wide web, and along the way, dont forget, we invented television. We invented television, radio, radar, microwaves, xray machines, we created the space program, and the gps system, and we physicists love to make predictions. When we assemble the internet, one physicist predicted that the internet would become a forum of high culture, high art, and high society. [laughter] well, today we know that five percent of the intern
25,000 in it needs to be disclosed. And with advocacy with those organizations there is a lot of distrust when we see an advertisement on television of the generic sounding name i think we tend to discount that but with questions how much we trust especially when uc the third party organizations. Host did they have a paid consultant . Not to my knowledge. But those who engaged in the practices make different types of coalitions and partnerships. The corporate groups and at an art with entirely different strategies that the extreme right and left the other in the middle of the spectrum. Has that professional bet with the system . In the guess and no. It is a good thing to get more people involved in politics. And also with the competing interests. So how people have their say before the policy makers. And that can be a very valuable thing. Where i do get concerned is the bargaining to get involved in the first place. They end up encouraging people to get involved where people already re