1. A few thoughts on the late Phyllis Schlafly & the centrality of the conservative Dolchstoßlegende in GOP history.
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3. Right wing activists of Schlafly's generation grew up believing that it moderate & liberal Republicans were traitors. The main enemy
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4. The thinking was that if GOP just nominated someone sufficiently right-wing enough, it would win & overturn New Deal.
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this is a vital point to grasp.
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...In the same way that the main foes of US liberals/progressives aren't fascists or conservatives but the American Left?
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nah more like how ISIS thinks the main foes are Muslims who don't subscribe to their brand of fundamentalism
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Much as the New Left understood that the corporate liberals were the real foe.
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(Got you a Karl Hess that can do both.)
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similar dynamic with religious fundamentalists and liberal denominations
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