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But the durability of Thurmond and Helms--and more importantly, their adaptability--has important implications for the no-longer-so-nascent Far Right in American politics.
THE RE-ELECTION campaigns of Senators Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) and Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) say a lot about the state of the American Right this year. It's not that their likely victories will actually contribute to the much-fabled Shift to the Right. They will not...
By all standards, this pair should be politically extinct--confined to the junkheap of rusted-out racists like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. It was Thurmond, after all, who led the Dixiecrat walkout at the 1948 Democratic convention over Harry Truman's modest civil rights proposals and soon earned a...
But unlike others of their ilk, these two learned the merits of flexibility--a little-recognized characteristic of the New Right. It is, of course, opportunism, not dogmatism, that gives the Right its bite, and Thurmond and Helms are specialists at tailoring their positions to rightwing fashions. Thurmond may perform...
Helms, who was CIA liaison to the Warren Commission, admitted to the committee that he had not told the commission about the Castro assassination plots, but, noting that John McCone was then CIA director, he asked: "Why single me out as the guy who should have told the Warren Commission...