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Steward Beckham's avatar

You nailed how the GOP’s moral collapse isn’t about “kids saying dumb things." It’s the final stage of a story that’s been decades in the making.

I wrote something this morning that traces that lineage, from Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” through Reagan’s coded appeals in Neshoba County to today’s normalization of open bigotry.

What we’re seeing in the Young Republican chats isn’t a rupture, it’s the reveal. The post–Great Society GOP found its unifying power in race, and that bargain has shaped every generation of conservative politics since.

Your reporting makes clear what too many in the so-called center still won’t say out loud: this didn’t begin with Trump, and it won’t end by pretending Reagan’s “Morning in America” was a sunrise.

Here’s my essay if readers want to go deeper and please share:

https://www.stewonthis.com/p/morning-in-america-redux?r=1d4el9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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Dax Jac's avatar

Correct, there is heavy money behind this movement!! Unfortunately the democrats were to weak or a majority of them were okay with this, to stop what has been decades in the making!!

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Anateus's avatar

Bought by our favorite ME ally.

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Frankly Wild's avatar

I have been following the blueprints progress as well. The entire progression. Constantine and Cesar weaponized “Christianity”. European kingdoms send all their 3rd sons here to conquer everything. They double deal and profit from all sides in a conflict, therefore get the peasants to fund conflict. Each part of the business plan is then exposed following on from 1492. It’s all organized extraction often complexly criminal, uniformly inhumane.

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Hear, Here!'s avatar

Read Curtis Yarvin. Unfortunately for Christians, they’re going to get destroyed too.

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Jameson Pepper's avatar

Your comment “What we’re seeing in the Young Republican chats isn’t a rupture, it’s the reveal.” is so true, well stated! The same goes with all of the republicans, they’re all bigots just some keep their fascist bigoted anti-America views under the surface more than others.

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AdrianB's avatar

Yep….. everyone we mention or write about who is a MAGAt/GOP person , we need use the words “nazi”, “fascist”or “Hitler lover” to describe these parasites that have put, We, the People, and this country's ( & other countries) democracy in jeopardy. Enjoy & create fun & be safe at Saturday’s “NO KINGS” rallies.

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Curmudgeon's avatar

The elephant in the room is the mistaken fantasy of young people saving democracy because of their superior knowledge of modern technology defeating stupid old fascists. I don't know why young people should have some natural immunity to right wing propaganda but it seems that's what some people have been believing. The most disgusting part, as always, is the press regaling the Dems for not finding away to appeal to young fascist men. I heard a caller on Thom's show ask a very good question: What kind of messaging stops the liars when they never shut up?

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VEGNYC's avatar

The RepubliKKKlan Party has been openly racist at least since Barry Goldwater ran for POTUS in '64 backed by the John Birch Society, whose hateful agenda became mainstream GOP policy. It is no surprise that we are here now, and we need to call every member of the GOP fascist, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, xenophobic, corporate-welfare loving, Christianist traitors to American democracy.

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Wonne's avatar

They only continue to dig themselves a deeper hole. God help us when their inflated stock market falls back down to Earth. You nailed Stefanik perfectly, she'll fail against Governor Hochul and the North Country has some options now.

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JustaDad's avatar

I'm almost 50 and never paid attention to politics until this year. I figured out where my ideas lie and it is firmly with the Democratic Party. Thank you for helping me find my way to the correct side

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Anthony Varrecchia's avatar

Well… 4 o’clock this morning I made my no kings sign.

I live in Washington DC not far from the Capitol building. We are all told to be careful that his people are out there ready to stir trouble. So wish me luck! I wish I could attach my sign because it looks fucking fabulous. !!

It says Epstein Ped🍊philes.

I thought the orange used as the O give it a really cool funky touch.

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Derrick's avatar

The big picture is heart wrenching and gut sickening. I cannot think “unbelievable” anymore. That damn electoral college, 2016, how can anyone win by 2.8 million votes and still lose ? That brings about the new lifetime Supreme Court majority who have delegitimized, disqualified and politicized themselves. The “gang of six” are promoting a regressive agenda steamrolling US back in time to a more deplorable era. Many see the demographic changes and are doing everything possible to clutch, claw and cling to 400 years of white privilege/power. That’s the bottom line behhnd ALL of this mess, isn’t it ? What better evidence of this movement backwards in time than the new policy of only white folk seeking asylum should be allowed/welcomed in. Blatantly, shamelessly, right out in the open, shoved in all our faces. Winter is coming, the snowflakes ❄️ obviously have long been here.

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Sakina's avatar

None of this is surprising. They've been wanting to say the quiet part out loud for years. They need some new material. Watermelons, monkeys, and the n-word are their go-to terms for Black people. Same goes for their other derogatory terms for other groups they hate. These people believe Drumpf when he says that they're not going to have a country anymore. They yearn for their "good ol' days," which were the bad ol'days for anyone not like them.

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Rebecca's avatar

I suppose Candice Owens still loves them all ? AI on google said: " Recent news shows that conservative commentator Candace Owens has not spoken out about Nazis in a group chat".

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Sakina's avatar

It never ceases to amaze me how the GOP Nazis manage to lure in Blacks and other oppressed groups! They have so many ways to divide and conquer. My guess is that Blacks follow them because of faux Christianity that supports misogyny and anti-LGBTQ sentiment, or, if they're wealthy Black people, tax breaks.

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Rebecca's avatar

Two of my longest friends ( over 30 years friendship) , she is White, her husband is Black, are wonderful people deep down with 3 daughters.. but they ( the parents) are such MAGA!. I think it stemmed from them being anti abortion. I can't bear to ask them about the Nazis because they will have some excuse I am sure.

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Sakina's avatar

Yes! I should have included the "pro-life" sentiment. I plan to ask such people if they are Buddhist!

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Peter Roest's avatar

If Vance ever had any integrity in the (distant) past, he sold it off long, long ago and there’s none of it left any more.

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Donovan Marley's avatar

Absolutely clear.

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Timithius Leblanc's avatar

The Republican Party has had a fascist wing since the 30s. Now radical billionaires have bought it into the mainstream.

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Donna  Lawson's avatar

You don’t love Franco James, you are incapable of love!

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Anateus's avatar

I love Claus von Stauffenberg.

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Graham R. Knotsea's avatar

Ha ha you people are insane

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