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How the American cowboy ignited the Republican movement
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:07
Publish Date: 2025-04-30 21:10:00
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The cowboy — a symbol of the true American man who is anti-government, works independently and protects his family. Historian Heather Cox Richardson calls this rhetoric “cowboy individualism” and says this myth is the basis for 40-year-old Republican ideology. With President Trump in his second term in office, Cox Richardson says the U.S. administration has taken cowboy individualism to an extreme, gutting the government and centring power.
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