🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ **History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift**

_“When Ronald Reagan left office, people like Newt Gingrich were more antagonistic and had a more ideological approach to conservatism. They kept pushing the party further and further to the right. What we see now in the Republican party is part of this long tradition during the 20th century,” Barrett said. “It will continue down this path as long as enough voters find this version of conservatism attractive.”_

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