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In today’s final episode of Heat and Light - ‘The Left’s Gift to Nixon’ - the past become prologue.

1968 is often remembered as a time of revolution, when liberal activists stood up to the powers that be and established progressive movements that endure to this day. However, 1968 was also the year the GOP’s Richard Nixon won the White House – and the start of more than two decades of nearly unbroken Republican power in the executive branch.

Arizona State University’s Donald Critchlow explains that this didn’t necessarily occur in spite of the left-wing protest movement – it may have happened directly because of it.

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You can also catch up on our earlier episodes:

Revolution Starts on Campus

Fear of a Non-Nuclear Family

An Interracial Kiss – on Another Planet

Detroit is Burning

The Mother of All Demos

Why God Votes Republican