Angie Maxwell
@angiemaxwell.bsky.social
*views are mine only* Blair Chair Southern Studies & Plsc Prof AMST PhD UTx; Truman Sch; The Long Southern Strategy; 2024 Carnegie Fellow; Data + Cultural Crit; Exhausted mom
Fusionist rhetoric aside, these are the three major electoral facets of American conservatism, as described by @angiemaxwell.bsky.social & Todd Shields in The Long Southern Strategy, and they’re much more tightly unified by Great Replacement Theory than by fusionism 17/x bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics
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The lawless presidency & "The Long Southern Strategy" (per @angiemaxwell.bsky.social) are Nixon's two-fold legacy destroying the republic.
Eric Rauchway@rauchway.bsky.social · 8mo ago"Nixon's understanding of presidential power remains an important and living legacy of his efforts to defend his hold on power irrespective of the law," co-author and I concluded our essay on Nixon published in 2019, and I am more convinced than ever that we live in the age of Nixon 🗃️
@angiemaxwell.bsky.social really good read & it cites The Long Southern Strategy.
Omg! I just bought @angiemaxwell.bsky.social ‘s book today! And I wrote a paper on Phyllis Schlafly, comparing her & her paleoconservative ideology to todays “Moms for Liberty”
Oh, PLEASE! There's such a thing as both/and. Here's me on the Long Southern Strategy w/ top expert @angiemaxwell.bsky.social : www.salon.com/2019/07/01/t...
How Southern white women drove the GOP to Donald Trump
Political scientist Angie Maxwell on how the anti-feminist movement and the Baptist church drove the GOP right
salon.com
Who else around here was taught D'Nealian in elementary school? #GenX #GenDNealian
'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
That’s the quote. I was looking for it. And here it is. Hannah Arendt on the Matt Gaetz as AG announcement
Tamar de Waal@tamardewaal.bsky.social · 2y ago'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)
The House Ethics Committee was set to vote this week on releasing a report about Matt Gaetz (R-Florida), who resigned from Congress on Wednesday after being picked as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Gaetz resigned days before ethics investigation report expected
The former congressman resigned soon after being nominated as President-elect Trump’s attorney general.
washingtonpost.com
Who institutions memorialize has nothing to do with the people being memorialized and everything to do with the need of the institution to seem human. The institution is, however, inhuman. Only we can memorialize those people even as we abhor the cynicism of the institution.
"1 in 14 judges confirmed during Trump’s presidency were confirmed after he lost his reelection bid. Perhaps the best known of those judges is U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon. " Will Biden/Schumer/Durbin show any sense of urgency in pushing to confirm judges?
Column | Trump demands the lame-duck president not do what he did as a lame duck
The president-elect wants to keep a number of seats in the judiciary unfilled, despite his push to stack the bench after he lost in 2020.
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Breaking News: The Onion, the satirical publication, said it won a bankruptcy auction to buy Infowars, a website run by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
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This War will not be Cold. thehill.com/policy/natio...
Trump taps Gabbard for director of national intelligence
President-elect Trump announced Wednesday that Tulsi Gabbard would serve as his director of national intelligence, a remarkable turnaround for a former Democrat accused of peddling Russian narrativ…
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The majority of white women are raised to compete with each other. Missing is any sense—whether in moments of triumph or eras of suffering—of the collective.
New prison in Arkansas. arkansasadvocate.com/briefs/arkan...
Arkansas organizations sign letter in opposition to new prison • Arkansas Advocate
Seventeen Arkansas community organizations have signed on to a letter opposing construction of a new state prison in Franklin County. Elected officials and local residents said they were blindsided b...
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I wrote about Bluesky's big week and the post-election realignment in social networks www.platformer.news/bluesky-thre...
My latest, 𝘚𝘦𝘹 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘯 𝘙𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳 𝘎𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘢, is now available on SSRN! The essay looks at the first abortion campaign in Georgia, uncovering new historical evidence, and examining how the politics of Redemption influenced Southern thinking on reproductive choice. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
looks like the cable news anchors are finally asking minor questions like “what does a mass deportation actually look like” and “are you going to deport citizen children?”
VP Kamala Harris outperformed Bernie in Vermont.
Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 2y agoA fiery statement from Bernie Sanders says the Democratic Party "has abandoned working class people" and found "that the working class has abandoned them." I have written about how Biden won in 2020 by forging a truce with Bernie and other progressives. Safe to say, that truce is over.
A new prison in the works in AR. Voted through this morning. Franklin County this time.
Greg Leding@gregleding.bsky.social · 2y agoAbout last night's town hall: Franklin County residents learned that the Arkansas Board of Corrections is set to vote on the new prison at 9:00a today. Despite pleas from the crowd, Chair Benny Magness told the crowd he wouldn't postpone the vote. (1/3)
In prison news, Arkansas governor announced a new 3,000 bed prison with news of a land purchase, which came as a complete surprise to the local elected officials and legislators for the area as they learned about from the media. To the surprise of no one, all the locals are pissed.
🧵"The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics" by @angiemaxwell.bsky.social & Todd Shields explains how race, gender & religion all played an identity-shaping role in reshaping US politics. But there was also a cognitive dimension as laid out here:
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 2y ago🧵 Since Donald Trump began his political career, a college degree has become a sort of proxy for "Trumpiness." But education is not the primary divide. It's cognition. Intelligence and cognition are often mistaken for each other, but they are not the same thing. plus.flux.community/p/the-scienc...
