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Thomas Zimmer@thomaszimmer.bsky.social |
“When the Clock Broke” powerfully dissects how the end of the Cold War opened the door for those who emphatically rejected liberal democracy, even as an aspiration, to move closer to the mainstream, and make their case to a mainstream audience more explicitly. 9/
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For the rightwing protagonists of “When the Clock Broke,” democracy – any attempt to level what they insisted were natural hierarchies of race, gender, wealth – was the enemy. To the hard Right, liberal democracy wasn’t the “end of history,” it was the end “real America.” 10/
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