Interesting series of tweets from @jbouie on we we locate beginning of current USA political crisis.https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/888614354186375168 …
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As always, one could trace Trumpism far back in time -- to 1960s New Right, to 1920s nativism, to end of Reconstruction, etc. etc.
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Useful way to periodize, I think,is to locate problem and then name some pivot points.
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Core issue is long battle over expansion of USA democracy that started with Civil Rights movement in 1940s & resistance to that.
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If that's core issue then pivot points are 1964 (conservative take-over of GOP), 1968 (Southern strategy), 1994 (Gingrich)
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1994 pivot worth dwelling on: start of asymmetric polarization & GOP refusal to accept Dems as legitimate opposition party.
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I also think 1980, election of Reagan: genuine shift in assumption that President should be knowledgeable and competent.
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Yep, Reagan is important in all sorts of ways. He also recast racial backlash in a more folksy dogwhistle way
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