> identifying, then exacerbating, local discontents about cultural change as an organizing tool At least since 1912. A new pool table at the Pleazol. Cap'n Billy's Whiz-Bang. Chaucer! Rabelais! Balzac. You've got trouble, my friends, you're in terrible terrible trouble
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I'm constantly sending people back to the Kanawha County Textbook War of 1974, where the same techniques as "critical race theory" backlash were used, down to the involvement of the Heritage Foundation.
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“We organize discontent.” This a divide and conquer strategy that dates back to forever.
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Right-wing PR is absolute top-shelf. If they could govern 1/1 as effectively as they can market, the US would be in a far better place than we are whenever they get even a smidgen of control.
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Midway through “Reaganland” right now. Stunned by how the portents of today’s political madness were so present during the early Carter admin, but so invisible to (the much younger) me at the time.
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You should read up on the 1850s. Now THOSE are some portents!
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Yeah wasn't this literally why the john birch society was created?
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Right on. Over and over. Some of today's language is so similar to the anti-Rugg crusade of 1939-1941 it blows my mind. https://adamlaats.net/2018/05/09/the-other-school-reformers-conservative-activism-in-american-education/ …pic.twitter.com/SAO6l1PjAP
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The American Legion has always been this way huh?
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