The New Right

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🗓️ 7 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

The 1976 Republican primary looks finished. After a string of losses to Ford, Reagan's aides prepare to concede. But a network of right-wing groups has quietly organized, drumming up anger over integration, women's rights, gun laws, and textbooks. It is known as the New Right, and it will help spring an improbable comeback that will change the battle lines of American politics.

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0:35.6	But we'll stand.
0:36.9	God's people have had to stand and be persecuted from the very beginning.
0:40.3	A pastor shouted.
0:41.5	And we'll continue to protest for Jesus Christ.
0:45.1	Parents picketed.
0:46.4	It's a moral issue and it's a spiritual issue.
0:49.3	Trucks honked.
0:51.5	Workers went on strike.
0:53.2	Many coal mines were closed.
0:55.1	Mothers sang.
0:56.5	A community was torn by outrage.
1:06.6	This was Knaw County, West Virginia, 1974.
1:10.2	The conflict was over new textbooks.
1:12.6	There's things that I don't want my child to know, and when it gets ready, I'll teach it.
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