original? slavery -> civil war -> reconstruction -> southern strategy -> dog whistle politics becoming coarser and shriller -> trump
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I started writing same answer, but doesn't account for concurrent rise of Trumpalikes in other countries w/o that history.
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there's also something significant about 2008-2010 that propelled something in the zeitgeist into something more serious
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demonization of "liberal media" and the construction of the conservative echo chamber
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@wycats Seeds were lain over the last 30 years: https://theintercept.com/2016/06/25/brexit-is-only-the-latest-proof-of-the-insularity-and-failure-of-western-establishment-institutions/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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When was the first time a serious politician publicly rejected science?
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truthfully: the 2000 primary campaign of Bush. It was McCains 'turn', but Bush broke gop seniority norms and ran, rest is history
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for my money: uneven education, and standards of living, in the US.
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Our horrendous Plurality Voting method obviously. http://scorevoting.net/Trump2015
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I’d probably go back to Gingrich as speaker. So much decorum was lost due to him and his plans.
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GOP governance stopped being "reality-based" with Gingrich in late '90s. Campaigning much earlier; see Perlstein on Nixon & Reagan.
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Goldwater’s ’64 campaign
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gerrymandering.
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Now you've got a bunch of really angry people telling "the establishment" to go screw themselves.
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Original sin was the Republican party selling a bill of goods to middle America that they bought. Decades, and no delivery later...
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I think that's fed by the uncompromising partisanship which predates it (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/23/a-stunning-visualization-of-our-divided-congress/ …), tribalism > competence
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the violent invasion and colonisation of the continent
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The Citizens for a Sound Economy successful attack against Clinton's BTU energy tax
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that's a weird choice. wouldn't the blame fall on McCain for choosing Palin? its not like McConnell had a choice or anything
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