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When Populist Wendell L. Willkie Upended the GOP Primary in 1940

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The populist businessman known as “the barefoot Wall Street lawyer” took over his party’s convention in Philadelphia. Later this week, the historic nomination of the first female candidate for president by a major political party at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia is sure to generate considerable hoopla. But, as with all U.S. presidential conventions[…]

A History of Strange Bedfellows – Ayn Rand, Libertarians, and the GOP

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The GOP has absorbed selected aspects of her rhetoric and larger aims of the libertarian purists. Ayn Rand (1904-82) has arisen from the dead. Over the last decade the pop philosopher and propaganda fictionist extraordinaire has moved steadily from the cultish margins to the mainstream of US conservatism. Her ghost may even haunt Republican Senator[…]