Ellison Lodge - VDare: I’m Proud, I’m White, and I Gotta Song to Sing: Merle Haggard’s Middle American Radicalism - "never a deep political thinker, so his positions were not always consistent. But a common thread was a sometimes ill-defined working class populist nationalism"

Country legend Merle Haggard died on April 6, his seventy ninth birthday. While he will be best remembered for his music, Haggard’s career was always tied up with politics, whether he liked it or not. More than any other entertainer, Haggard was known as the voice of the silent majority—and the “Middle American Radicals” analyzed by the late Samuel T. Francis in Revolution From the Middle(1997) and rediscovered by Donald Trump. ...

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