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His reactionary brand of “America First” nationalism entailed stoking populist skepticism of technological progress, and centering American interests ahead of what he called the emerging “globalist technocracy.”

What we are seeing in this country with reactionary politics is just the pendulum of history swinging backward in a bad way.

Many in this diverse nation have compelling stories to tell, generating energy to battle the reactionary right-wing efforts to roll back any progress that has been made in past decades.

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

We helped defeat fascism in Europe, Americans can rightly claim; we also helped inspire Europe’s fascists, who looked longingly at the United States’ reactionary tradition of genocide and racial segregation.