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In response to
"Bush/Cheney broke the Republican party and here we are -- nm"
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oblique
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I think about this from time to time...
Posted by
Mel Profit (aka Mel Profit)
Nov 6 '24, 06:23
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I think it started with Nixon and the people around him. They thought the President was supreme.
It then kickstarted with Reagan who took advantage of the economic turmoil of the 70s to blame the "Welfare State". It was then too when the idea of "Trickle Down" economics took hold. The concept that if the top economic bracket does well, we all benefit. That was the foundation of where we are.
Then the Cheney Administration happened. They super charged the Nixonian idea that the Presidency had more power than it traditionally had. Karl Rove ruthlessly removed enemies of this idea to say nothing of the opposition. He really was a "Just Win, Baby!" kinda guy.
They took national grief and perverted itand concocted a tissue thin justification to invade another country. They did it with great hubris, thinking they could remake the region in our image.
The Cheney Administration also made Stupid kind of Ok.
Then came Palin. That's when it was fully cemented that you didn't need to think critically.
The we elected Obama and that's when things began to unravel. Out came Racism from the shadows. A larger portion of our country than some of us thought were outraged that an African American person dared step out of line.
The economic policies that Reagan started got picked up by the "Tea Party". It was a nice Frankenstein of Racism under the guise of Trickle Down Economics.
And then we ended up here. All along the way, Republicans did something to remove guardrails and pull blocks out of the foundation. So much of it is galling but I reserve a special place for those Republicans who aided this along the way. The Lincoln Project can go Eff itself.
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