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Rick Perlstein has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger.
• It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review…
• Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him…
• No historical analogies are exactly precise.
• All right-wing antigovernment rage in America bears a racial component, because liberalism is understood, consciously or unconsciously, as the ideology that steals…
• Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance…
• Ronald Reagan never did much to make abortion illegal. He did, however, deliver videotaped greetings, fulsome in praise for his hosts, to…
• Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb…
• Somehow, failures in the public sector are always judged as systematic. The private sector thus exists to ride to the rescue -…
• Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory.
• Let there be a special place in Hell for pundits who make predictions.
• Fight injustice, that our children might be blessed.

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