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How America’s right wing is becoming a lot more like Britain’s

Today’s Republicans talk less about God and more about fighting illegal immigration

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

 

 Washington DC

Amid all the commentary about the Republican party’s triumph in America’s midterm elections, a remarkable fact was ignored: in style and substance, the American right is rapidly becoming a lot more like Britain’s. And that might be the key to its success.

In the last generation, American right-wingers have stood proudly apart from their counterparts in Europe, Britain, Canada and Australia.

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Michael Lind is a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States.

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