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    5 months ago

    Anyone not bothering enough to travel back to The Southern Strategy in 1964 as response to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 isn’t seeing the complete picture or who Republicans have been for the last 60 years, what their end goals were, and how they believe Trump’s MAGA is going to get them there while destroying American egalitarian secular Democracy that until now has thwarted their Christofascist dreams

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      5 months ago

      Let us not forget that Republicans opposed Social Security in the early 1930s.

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      Yep. The racist and anti-intellectual undertow goes back a long way. It is not just Ronnie Raygun (or donnie, for that matter), it’s a very long tradition of this nasty stuff.

      Democracy in Chains details efforts underway long before Ronnie Raygun slithered into office.