Christina’s Reviews > How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America > Status Update
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'McCarthy had shown the Taft wing of the Republican Party how to advance their agenda by exploiting the media. He yelled, made crazy accusations, badgered, and hectored in what was essentially performance art that advanced a simple, almost mythical narrative... He alone was defending America by protecting individualism from an all-pervasive government of godless communists. ...Taft Republicans had found a game plan.'
— Aug 20, 2026 04:38PM
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'When Reagan tapped the 35-year-old Michigan Congressman David Stockman to be his Budget Director, Stockman, who had grown up on Conscience of a Conservative, set out to bring Goldwater's dream to life. ...When the computer simulations at the Office of Management and Budget showed that the proposed tax cuts would not increase revenues ...and explode the deficit, Stockman simply reprogrammed the computers.'
— Aug 21, 2026 05:53PM
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'To rebuild the South, [Andrew] Johnson turned not to the Army, or to the ex-slaves who had supported the Union, but to former Confederates. He offered pardons to all but about 1,500 Confederate leaders... The states...then codified the racial violence that swept across the South in the summer of 1865.'
— Aug 18, 2026 04:10PM