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Eoin Higgins is a writer based in New England whose work has appeared in progressive and mainstream outlets across the country. He is writing a book on how left and left-adjacent media figures move to the right — and the money that’s helping to drive that shift.
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Republican Chaos Is a State of Being
The party’s status quo is, at best, dysfunctional, leaving the conservative movement with no winners save the opportunists taking advantage of the ideological civil war.
Eoin Higgins