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The quote says that social conservatism and business conservatism are not separate forces, but each helps create and sustain the other. The “Mobius strip” image suggests a loop with no clear beginning or end, where one side feeds the other. It presents the relationship as tightly connected and hard to untangle.
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About Rick Perlstein
American historian, writer and journalist
Rick Perlstein is an American historian, writer, and journalist known for his accounts of the American conservative movement after the 1960s. He has 117 quotes on the site. He is the author of five bestselling books. His first book, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Politico has described him as a careful chronicler of modern conservatism.
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Books by Rick Perlstein
The invisible bridge
2014
Before the storm
2001