It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy (from 2022)
It didn’t start with Trump: The decades-long saga of how the GOP went crazy
The modern Republican Party has always exploited and encouraged extremism.
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Any political party that's profited from funding Israel's decades long genocide of Palestine is beyond crazy. Both parties are criminal.
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The fossil fuel corporations made the DENIAL OF BASIC PHYSICAL REALITY into a "conservative" article of faith. Today's Republican global warming deniers are like people proclaiming that the theory of gravity is a hoax because there's no evidence that heavy objects fall when dropped. THAT is crazy.
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Should be required reading for every Highschool student.
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They've played the long game. And played us like a fiddle.
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It started with Reagan.
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this is absolutely the gop...they allow trump to be trumpy and use his signature cuz he doesn't even know what he's signing....can't fully blame trump, dumb as a brick...blame the gop...it's the gop, totally
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Started with Reagan!
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now do the part on how the complicit democratic leaders let them
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Very interesting article re:the history. There’s some hyperbole in the sentences, but the thread running through the GOP from the ‘50’s to Maga is clear.
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24/7 for 20+ years of propaganda will do that to a country ..
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That through line is 406 years old.
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"Since the 1950s, the GOP has repeatedly mined fear, resentment, prejudice, and grievance and played to extremist forces so the party could win elections."
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Who knew that Christians were easily exploited?
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Started with Reagan!
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It started when they let the religious crazies into the tent.
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You’re right! It started with #RonnieRaygun & #xtians.
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No it didn’t start with trump. It started with Reagan or even earlier, with Nixon.
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IMHO: $$$ From Russia funneled via dark LLCs invented by Congress to launder money "legally".
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First up: Newt Gingrich
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9/11 was an inside job. Now vote Republican - Alex Jones
This was over a decade of course but look where we landed
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Eye of Newt was a major ingredient.
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America elected a black man, heads exploded … the end. Gonna be a short article.
