These comments get at why I've been wary of the neo-Hofstadterian anti-Trump arguments.https://twitter.com/CoreyRobin/status/993286126126419969 …
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The mistake made again & again is thinking if the bad apples are gone, system will be fine. Nixon resigns, etc. But it's not the bad applies. There's something wrong with the apple barrel itself.
Can't be a coincidence that this GOP belief rears its head under Nixon, who courted the White Supremacists who'd just seen their particularly horrific "order" under Jim Crow come to an end.
Is it fair to say that Eisenhower was the last decent/sane Republican? That's my view.
Eisenhower's WWII fame covers up a lot of evil things going on under his administration. His CIA Director Allen Dulles and his Sec of State John Foster Dulles were instigators of US imperialist crimes in Iran, Guatemala and other places. See Kinser’s The Brothers.
A marriage of convenience between J Edgar Hoover and the Birchers gave corporatist conservatives a fertile bed. Nixon sprang from it.
And look where Ollie is today. SMH.
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