The movement that closed the MAGA mind goes back 70 years: analysis

The movement that closed the MAGA mind goes back 70 years: analysis

Brookings Institution nonresident fellow and philosopher Laura Field says a 77-year-old book can explain the MAGA new right, and much of it deals with the rejection of truth.Author Richard Weaver wrote a book in 1948 that describes the basic contours of the New Right’s closed philosophical approach. Field said you can hear the book’s title, “Ideas Have Consequences,” as a popular catchphrase among conservatives.Field said Weaver explored a philo…