@docrocktex26 Has an excellent thread on the current impacts of Nixon’s Southern Strategy.
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@SykesCharlie I believe Conservatism...and the GOP went way off the rails with Newt Gingrich...and it may never recover. The present day GOP may be the catalyst for a third party...right of center fiscally and left of center socially. -
I think there are plenty of Ds who might want to join that party.
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The Degradation of the GOP began with Nixon; he planted the seeds; Reagan watered them and was canonized by the GOP for it; and Gingrich harvested the bitter fruits and gave us poison politics and the current GOP party of Deplorables.
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No it’s not a pretty thing, the Southern Strategy.
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I never felt comfortable with the appeals to racist sentiment in the GOP--Willie Horton, for example. But Democrats have unclean hands as well, including exploiting minority voters and running anti-"blue collar" campaigns. Politics is nasty. cc
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p.s. This is not an attempt at "both-sidism." More: a pox on both their houses. Which is why I'm not a member of either party.
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What you are missing though is who supports and listens to disadvantaged populations in terms of policy and representation? Not just tokenism, but actually puts decision makers in power that understand being powerless?
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Are those questions? Who's "missing" this?
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Who cares about Buckley? He's dead. The GOP is literally owned and run by the sons of the founder of the John Birch society. It's a cult now.
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Lee Atwater was hired by George H.W. Bush. Case closed.
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@SykesCharlie read a thread of how Newt doing the same thing. This has been at least 40 years in the works just more brazenly done now. Doesn’t mean you’re wrong though, there have been individuals whom spoke out from time to time. IMHO the Tea Party main streamed it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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The Neshoba County Fair being but one example.
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One of my uncles was a Bircher. The mail he got (of course wanting $$$) was horrifying And in tandem Judicial Watch, same horrid scare mongers. Outright lies/distortions and every mailer wanted $$$. As he got senile, he contributed with every letter we couldn't intercept.
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Nancy MacLean's Democracy in Chains
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Stone, Cheney, Ailes, Rove, Atwater - many others perhaps. All with deep ties to the Nixon campaign and Whitehouse. This is where the seeds were planted, but the party was blindsided when the Tea Party harvested the crop and then again when Trump baked the bread.
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And while Buckley disowned the Birchers, George HW Bush made peace with them and leveraged them to take over Texas politics and propel himself and his family into dynastic status nationwide.
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To the point where a young person perforce sees the GOP as racist, even white supremacist by definition. As for those young people who ID as GOP, well...
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@SykesCharlie sadly, we learned principled people with ideals and morals were clearly less than 50% of the GOP; likely barely double digits.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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