1. On three major issues -- marriage equality, Confederate flag, Trump's anti-Mexican bigotry -- big business has gone against GOP base.
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2. Has the right lost the cultural wars? It's premature to say so (& there will always be cultural wars) but big business trend is telling
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3. Since late 1960s at least, GOP coalition has fused two potentially hostile elements, corporate America & social conservatives.
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4. Important to realize that before 1960s, there was no reason to think GOP anymore socially conservative than Dems.
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5. GOP was party of north-eastern business elite, diverse Dem coalition included many socially conservative groups (South, immigrants)
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6. The anti-birth control Connecticut law overturned in Griswold (1965) was passed by a Democratic state legislature.
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7. Late period Margaret Sanger very comfortable with Republican party. Wives of Goldwater, Ford, Rockefeller active in Planned Parenthood.
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8. And the early 1960s suburban swingers and wife swappers in Updike's Couples were Republicans. They hated JFK.
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9. So the alliance between Republican corporate types & religious right is of relatively recent vintage. Only 50 years old.
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10. When this alliance first formed, Daniel Bell, one of the smartest of the neoconservatives, thought it was inherently unstable.
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11. For Bell, there was a inherent contradiction between capitalist push for liberation and traditionalist imperative of restraint.
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