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Author, 'Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us' (Prometheus, 2020). Staff writer @DailyKos. I block shitheads.

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    David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

    1) A thread about Sarah Palin, who in many ways was the key figure in the transformation of the Republican Party into the know-nothing, anti-science, conspiracy-theory-loving, cultishly authoritarian Party of Trump it is today. W/ video.pic.twitter.com/AlKdJ6v4FR

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      2. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        2) I've been thinking a lot about Palin in no small part because of the way Trump-hating Republicans like @MeghanMcCain are rewriting history by trying to blame Barack Obama for Trump, because apparently _he_, not the GOP, stoked America's culture wars when he was president.pic.twitter.com/D7YJSwLT6A

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      3. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        3) Let's be clear: the GOP has been stoking these culture wars as a means of winning election since at least the days of Ronald Reagan and his presidency. But they embraced it openly beginning in 1992 with Pat Buchanan's "cultural war" speech.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2olwuAy3_og …

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      4. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        4) This M.O. never ceased configuring Republican politics in the ensuing years, notably during the Bush years. But unquestionably the person who most made these culture the entire raison d'être of the GOP was John McCain's 2008 running mate, Sarah Palin.https://www.journalism.org/2008/11/20/sarah-palin-and-the-culture-wars/ …

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      5. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        5) I became intimately familiar while on assignment in Alaska to examine Palin's connections to the extremist right, mainly the "Patriot"/militia movement, during her time on the Wasilla city council and then as the city's mayor. She had a fondness for the John Birch Society.pic.twitter.com/dTlPyrDtsR

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      6. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        6) Our story ran in early October, but it unfortunately didn't make it onto the radar of the national media. Still, it remained a solid story that revealed a great deal about the political creature McCain and his campaign had unleashed.https://www.salon.com/2008/10/10/palin_chryson/ …

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      7. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        7) It emerged later that Palin had watched my appearance on CNN to promote the piece and had gone nuts, creating a huge fight within the campaign that she lost, thereby inspiring her to infamously 'go rogue' for the duration. Guess I did my part.https://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/how-i-helped-drive-sarah-palin-crazy …

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      8. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        8) However, this extremism had of course already bubbled up during the campaign -- reflected not just in her red-meat speeches but in the effect she had on crowds. This report from Al Jazeera still haunts me.pic.twitter.com/GIUwg1G3wB

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      9. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        9) The key here is that after the election, Palin didn't tone down the extremism, but rather stepped it up. She was one of the first figures from the GOP establishment to embrace the "Birther" conspiracy theories.pic.twitter.com/41udXr4Ve0

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      10. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        10) Of course, we also know who not only followed suit, but launched his entire political career on the back of this fraudulent and racist conspiracy theory.pic.twitter.com/4cFfGDriN8

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      11. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        11) Palin also played a key role in the increasing radicalization of the GOP, particularly through her connections to the Tea Party, which quickly became a major conduit for "Patriot"-style and Christian nationalist extremism. http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2010/04/video-sarah-palins-speech-to-women-of.html?m=0 …

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      12. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        12) Palin also did a lot to pave the way for the gobbledygook word-salad rhetorical style that has been Trump's hallmark.pic.twitter.com/JULT98B8PW

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      13. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        13) By 2014, though, Palin's political style had deteriorated into maudlin and seemingly intoxicated delivery, and she became a serious embarrassment. Her speech to the Western Conservative Summit that year was a real humdinger.pic.twitter.com/4rzbW0qbBO

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      14. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        14) Who, after all, could forget "God doesn't drive parked cars"?pic.twitter.com/FvH66rGIS9

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      15. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 20 May 2020

        15) Palin was the proto-Trump, and the culture wars waged by Republicans he stoked to democracy-threatening levels were already fully inflamed by the time he arrived on the scene, thanks to Palin. John McCain made this happen. It's too late for excuses.https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/sarah-palin-isn-t-invited-to-john-mccain-s-memorial-services …

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      16. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 21 May 2020

        16) Palin has become something of a national joke now, dancing in a rainbow bear costume on 'The Masked Singer' to 'Baby Got Back.' But the nightmarish irony hit like lightning that night (March 11) the moment her segment ended: Trump addressed the nation on the coronavirus.pic.twitter.com/yYsnHDv9tw

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      17. David Neiwert‏ @DavidNeiwert 21 May 2020

        17) Trump's narcissism dwarfs Palin's, but the politics of authoritarian and cultish faux "patriotism" is the same -- if anything, it's gone on steroids during the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a recipe for disaster and 100,000 dead.pic.twitter.com/aPqDy9yzpQ

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