Gage, Beverly  <br/><br/>
The autocratic allure: Why the far right embraces foreign tyrants 

 - Foreign Affairs  
 - 103(5), Sep-Oct, 2024: p.199-204 
<br/><br/> Ever since the New Deal, American liberals have shown a remarkable ability to forget about the American right. In 1950, the social critic Lionel Trilling famously declared victory for liberalism, dismissing conservative ideas as nothing more than “irritable mental gestures.” The subsequent rise of McCarthyism, massive resistance against civil rights, and the John Birch Society all called that assumption into question—but when Lyndon Johnson defeated the archconservative Republican Barry Goldwater in the 1964 presidential election, final victory was declared once again. Then Richard Nixon got elected.- Reproduced <br/><br/>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/autocratic-allure-beverly-gage<br/>