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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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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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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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      12. Bell located a central faultline, although GOP successfully kept contradictory coalition together for 50 years.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015

      13. If I were a cultural conservative, bigger worry than loss on SCOTUS is fact that big business now sees me as dispensable.

      7:10 AM - 5 Jul 2015 from Toronto, Ontario
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        2. nothings monstered‏ @nothingsmonstrd 5 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet I feel like I've heard the same again & again for decades. Coalitions have tensions, but money & votes need each other.

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        1. Downpuppy, since 1783‏ @Downpuppy 5 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet This confidence level of big business should worry us all.

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        1. Dave Mazella‏ @DaveMazella 5 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet Not sure how this has changed; culture warriors always expendable, no?

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jul 2015
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          14. This would be a good issue for American Conservative to take up: how does the right deal with betrayal of big business. @ToryAnarchist

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        3. Achilles Robot‏ @AchillesRapBad 5 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet I don't think this is as new as you make it out to be. Social cons have always been disappointed w/what mainstream gives them.

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        1. Carlos Yu‏ @carloshasanax 5 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet Well, yeah. Hence the reliance on ideologically committed billionaires rather than broad money support. They've known for a while.

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        1. Brian Wasik‏ @BrianRWasik 5 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet You're own @ebruenig wrote about this wonderfully in her article on the isolation of Huckabee. I'm w/o the link...

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        1. Kevin J. Maroney‏ @womzilla 5 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet and Rupert Murdoch runs the world's largest p0rn service. Capitalism loves--thrives on--vice.

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        1. Robert Waters‏ @rawatersjr 5 Jul 2015
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          @HeerJeet Main St. v. Wall St. is ancient Repub trope. But Big Money today trends Dem because can use regs to destroy smaller competitors.

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