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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      2. George McGovern and Jesse Jackson have made fundamental changes to Democratic Party yet have been written out of history.

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      3. We now think of the Dems as the socially liberal party and GOP as culturally conservatives. There was little reason to do so pre-McGovern

      1 reply 10 retweets 10 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      4. Pre-McGovern: plenty of Dems were social conservatives. Anti-birth control law in Conn. was passed by Democratic legislator.

      1 reply 10 retweets 9 likes
    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      5. Conversely pre-McGovern, GOP had many Planned Parenthood types and general social liberals (including Margaret Sanger in her old age)

      2 replies 9 retweets 9 likes
    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      6. Every read Updike's Couples? Wife swapping suburbanites in that book are all Republicans -- they hate JFK.

      1 reply 7 retweets 10 likes
    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      7. McGovern campaign for the first time aligned Dems firmly with social liberalism: "abortion, amnesty, acid"

      2 replies 10 retweets 10 likes
    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      8. Jesse Jackson played similar role to McGovern in helping recast Dem's self-conception.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      9. Rather than hold on to New Deal nostalgia, Jackson pushed idea of Rainbow coalition -- Dem's as multicultural party.

      3 replies 15 retweets 18 likes
    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      10. As @tanehisicoates has suggested, Obama coalition can be traced back to Jackson movement.

      3 replies 12 retweets 15 likes
    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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      11. 11. It's not just winners who make history -- losers can change the terms of debate or the nature of political coalitions.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014

      12. One thing I'll say for conservatives -- they know how to honor losers. They rightly see Goldwater as a prophet.

      5:45 PM - 21 Aug 2014
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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          13. Oddly, only people who take Jackson seriously anymore are the hard right. For Limbaugh & Co. he's still good for red meat salivations

          1 reply 5 retweets 7 likes
        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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          14. To address @tanehisicoates's question as to why Jackson is still such a potent hate-figure on right, we have to return to 1980s.

          1 reply 9 retweets 9 likes
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        1. Tariq Ahsan‏ @tariqahsan 21 Aug 2014
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          @HeerJeet even he'd mellowed down in late 80s , adopted socially liberal positions & came to believe attacking Vietnam had been silly.

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        2. We Built This‏ @tribalidentity 21 Aug 2014
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          @HeerJeet I know I keep hyping #BeforetheStorm But, what @rickperlstein said.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
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          @tribalidentity @rickperlstein Sure. That book underwrites a lot of what I'm saying here.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Aug 2014
          Replying to @RogerJStoneJr

          @RogerJStoneJr @briantedjones In your guts, you know he's nuts.

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