(Video) Corey Robin: (Author of The Reactionary Mind) #Conservatives have always embraced ’fanatical
For those that believe the GOP has only recently taken a hard right turn, Professor Corey Robin says, “nonsense.” Conservatives from the beginning knew they needed to be “ideological, zealous, fanatical,” in order to counter democratic movements, Robin said in an interview with Lean Forward.
Instead, the “Paul Ryans” of the GOP are “reading from a very old playbook,” he said.
Robin is an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. He sat down with Lean Forward's Ned Resnikoff on the eve of the Republican National Convention to discuss his new book The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin.
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