Reading archive 2022-07-24

On the campaign trail, many Republicans talk of violence: In both swing states and safe seats, GOP candidates say that liberals hate them personally and may turn rioters or a police state on people who disobey them

The education of Adam Kinzinger: He was the face of modern conservatives and beloved by Republican leaders like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. But now he is trying to steer the party toward a new path in politics opposite his once “true friend.”

Claim that sex ed ‘grooms’ kids jolted Nebraska politics a year before it swept the nation: The unsubstantiated claim led to a backlash against sex ed that helped topple local Republican Party leaders and propelled a wave of far-right candidates for local and statewide school board

The Claremont Institute triumphed in the Trump years. Then came Jan. 6.: After Trump helped revolutionize Claremont from a minor academic outfit to a key Washington player, the think tank is facing blowback for standing by lawyer John Eastman after he counseled Trump on overturning the 2020 election. - "'They did not wait to bury the teaching with the teacher,' Jaffa recalled his father saying. 'What they are trying to do is put a top hat on Jefferson Davis and call it Abraham Lincoln and the dust cover of the ‘Nicomachean Ethics’ on ‘Atlas Shrugged’ and call it Aristotle.'"

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