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Elections as Ideological Contests

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Elections as Ideological Contests
Voters cast their ballot in an election in New York state on Nov. 6, 2018. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images
Paul Gottfried
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Listening to some Republican spokesmen predicting a Republican blowout this fall, I have to wonder in what world they’re living.

Paul Gottfried
Paul Gottfried
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Paul Gottfried is editor in chief of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. He is also the Raffensperger Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Elizabethtown College, where he taught for 25 years, a Guggenheim recipient, and a Yale Ph.D. He is the author of 14 books, most recently “Antifascism: Course of a Crusade” (2021), and numerous articles and book reviews.
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