Again excellent & I would add: these rightwing crusades against liberalism only gain traction when liberals out of cravenness & opportunism join in the anti-left agitation: as in Wilson and Truman administrations or recent mainstreaming of anti-PC & anti-cancel culture discoursehttps://twitter.com/lionel_trolling/status/1393182626299748353 …
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I don’t buy that narrative at all. Carter was perceived as a hapless weakling. As were Mondale and Dukakis after him. Anyway, we’re not going to persuade each other. The world looks different from the left than it does from the center (and from the right, for that matter).
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Conservatives portray all Democratic candidates as hapless & weak, including Clinton, Obama, and Biden. The point is to look at policies. Carter as pioneer of neo-liberalism is pretty widely accepted now, not just in radicals circles.
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You’re looking at the conservative movement rise from an outsiders perspective instead of insider which is why you’ve confused causes and effects. The conservative movement rose inside the Republican Party and then in America in the 1960s and through the 1970s.
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Thus the famous George Will quote that Goldwater won in 1964 but it just took 16 years to count the votes. Carter was hardly the trigger for a national movement growing for two decades.
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