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Kim Phillips-Fein
Assistant Professor, The Gallatin School of NYU
Kimberly Phillips-Fein is an American historian. Her primary areas of research concern the role of business in the development of the modern conservative movement in the second half of the 20th century and the role of economic ideas in the rise of conservatism. She has written for publications including the Nation, London Review of Books, New Labor Forum, Baffler, and In These Times, to which she has contributed articles and reviews. Her first book, "Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan," was published in 2009 by W. W. Norton.
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A lack of promising candidates plague a party that is otherwise ripe for a takeover.
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By taking ownership of certain ideas, Republicans made the opposition seem like weaklings in key areas like defense.
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The Grand Old Party has always benefited from old money, big business, and hardcore social conservatives, says the NYU historian.
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Some factions of the right wing wanted drastic change, while others fought for the status quo.
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A conversation with the assistant professor of history at the Gallatin School at New York University.