Partisans Week: Buchanan at Smuggler's Gulch (1992)
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Nicole Hemmer has a new book out! It’s called “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s.” All this week, she’s walking through some of her favorite stories from the book, which is available for purchase now.
Today: a story about how Pat Buchanan carved out an extreme stance about the US-Mexico border, and immigration became a key GOP issue
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 0:09.0 | Partisans week continues. |
| 0:13.0 | Nicole Hemmer has published a new book. |
| 0:15.0 | It's called Partisans and all this week she is bringing us stories from that book. |
| 0:20.0 | Kelly and I don't know what they are going in, but we will try and say smart things, but mostly Mickey's going to say the smart things because she's the expert here. |
| 0:27.0 | But hello, Nicole Hemmer of Vanderbilt, author of the book Partisans. |
| 0:31.0 | Hi. |
| 0:32.0 | Hello, Jody. Do you have a subtitle? Does I have one of those like |
| 0:34.8 | I do yes it does have one of the very lengthy ones it's called Partisans the |
| 0:39.8 | Conservative Revolutionaries who we made American politics in the 1990s. |
| 0:44.4 | It's easily at least 10 words. |
| 0:46.1 | Yeah, well, we like long titles. |
| 0:48.0 | And Kelly Carter Jackson of Wesley, hello there. Hey there can I just say I absolutely love the cover art for this book. It is so powerful. It looks like like a rally with the flag behind it it's very like vintage it's just it's it's |
| 1:06.9 | great it's really really great very eye-catchy thank you very much it really |
| 1:11.2 | evokes a fascism aesthetic. |
| 1:14.8 | You have Pat Buchanan doing his fast |
| 1:17.1 | spinito miscellaneous. |
| 1:19.6 | Not an accident, Kelly. |
| 1:21.1 | When you write a book, do you get a say in the cover? |
| 1:24.9 | My say was, look at the new cover. |
| 1:29.1 | It's great, right? |
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