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For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It’s kabuki theater, mostly.

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Rick Perlstein

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While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It’s not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.

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Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

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May 26, 2024

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972.

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May 26, 2024

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It’s not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.

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