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<p>After a long dance with the far right, the Republican party lost – or abandoned – its desire to control the fringe, shifting from an institutional party to a set of media platforms running on a political platform of pessimism and anger, argues Nicole Hemmer. </p>

The GOP believed it could appeal to its extremist fringe, without succumbing to it.

Listen to Tom each Tuesday and Thursday morning after the 11 AM news as he joins Andy Brownell for Rochester Today on News-Talk 1340 KROC-AM and 96.9 FM.

The faith of the mystics and the light of common sense go hand in hand.

Through the power and successful political application of its ideas, the conservative movement became a dominant player in America's political and economic realms. With the right leadership,much of the frustration and uncertainty that now characterize theconservative movement will again fade away as they did when RobertTaft, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and Newt Gingrich were themovement's acknowledged leaders.

In “Partisans,” Nicole Hemmer zeros in on ’90s figures like Pat Buchanan as guiding forces behind the Republican Party’s hard-right, conspiracy-minded turn.

A new book by the historian Nicole Hemmer charts the demise of Reagan-style optimism and the birth of a rage-and-fear-based politics on the right.

In the aftermath of Russias invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden declared to the nation and world: "We are engaged anew in a great battle for freedom. A battle between democracy and autocracy."

Revisiting Pat Buchanan's culture war speech after thirty years.

That friendly fist bump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might not have been such a defining moment—had Biden not first set himself up.