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	Podcast:		Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)
	Episode:		How the American cowboy ignited the Republican movement
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:54:07
	Publish Date:		2025-04-30 21:10:00
	Description:		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. In this public lecture, Cox Richardson argues that the current Trump administration has taken cowboy individualism to an extreme by gutting the government and centring power.
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