Seth Cotlar is a Professor of History at Willamette University. Author of Tom Paine's America. He has fabulous new substack account called Rightlandia. And he’s been diving into the archives of GOP leader named Walter Huss and showing us that history is very much alive. I hope you’ll listen to our conversation in this WCPT 820AM podcast where we talked about:
How Seth is tracking the far-right takeover of the GOP because it’s worth pointing out to people how far today’s Republican Party is from the conservative party that nominated Mitt Romney just a decade ago.
The latest so-called outrages that get the right all worked up the history of angry diatribes against perceived left wing efforts to stifle free speech.
Recent efforts by the Oregon GOP to oust their leadership
Historian and Willamette University professor, Seth Cotlar
LISTEN: Historian Seth Cotlar on what drives the GOP's rightward shift