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It started its journey back when Arizona Republican U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater made his run for the Presidency in 1964 and started recruiting Conservative, racist Democrats in the U.S. South. The trend accelerated when Richard Nixon solidified this strategy in 1968, and at this point it became the unstoppable phenomenon we know of as the Republican Southern Strategy.
These rabid racists slowly abandoned the Democratic Party, turning it into the liberal bastion that it is now. They invaded the Republican Party over a period of 50 years. Each wave became more and more virulent: the first wave opposed the Civil Rights Act. Then came the next wave: the Reaganites and their “black Welfare Queen” myth that forever tarred African Americans as welfare leeches. Then came the Neoconservatives during the Bush years of 2000, who briefly turned their white-hot racist rage from blacks to Muslims after 9/11.
Then after Obama came into office in 2008, the Neoconservatives were pushed aside by the violent and notoriously hyper-racist Tea Party, and so began the final takeover of the GOP by the extremists that now not only back Donald Trump’s run for the Presidency, but have put him ahead as the current GOP front-runner.
The GOP is Bethlehem, the Southern Strategy was the road, and Donald Trump is that rough beast that traveled the road into the GOP. The GOP is in its final stages of moral ruin.
Make no mistake, Donald Trump goes out of his way to avoid tarring black people, but he pulls no racist punches against Mexicans, or women. He’s using black people, trying to divide us against Mexicans, and he is tapping into the same racist, hateful crowd that Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon first open the GOP gates for back in 1964.
This is Conservatism as it always has been: when it ruled the Democratic Party, and as it now fully dominates the GOP. Conservatism is a ruinous, divisive ideology that thrives on misogyny, racism and hatred for the working class and poor. It has always been the ideology that best supports rich (as in Plutocrat rich) white cis hetero men. If you’re outside of that demographic, you are not in their favor. Ever.
These rabid racists slowly abandoned the Democratic Party, turning it into the liberal bastion that it is now. They invaded the Republican Party over a period of 50 years. Each wave became more and more virulent: the first wave opposed the Civil Rights Act. Then came the next wave: the Reaganites and their “black Welfare Queen” myth that forever tarred African Americans as welfare leeches. Then came the Neoconservatives during the Bush years of 2000, who briefly turned their white-hot racist rage from blacks to Muslims after 9/11.
Then after Obama came into office in 2008, the Neoconservatives were pushed aside by the violent and notoriously hyper-racist Tea Party, and so began the final takeover of the GOP by the extremists that now not only back Donald Trump’s run for the Presidency, but have put him ahead as the current GOP front-runner.
The GOP is Bethlehem, the Southern Strategy was the road, and Donald Trump is that rough beast that traveled the road into the GOP. The GOP is in its final stages of moral ruin.
Make no mistake, Donald Trump goes out of his way to avoid tarring black people, but he pulls no racist punches against Mexicans, or women. He’s using black people, trying to divide us against Mexicans, and he is tapping into the same racist, hateful crowd that Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon first open the GOP gates for back in 1964.
This is Conservatism as it always has been: when it ruled the Democratic Party, and as it now fully dominates the GOP. Conservatism is a ruinous, divisive ideology that thrives on misogyny, racism and hatred for the working class and poor. It has always been the ideology that best supports rich (as in Plutocrat rich) white cis hetero men. If you’re outside of that demographic, you are not in their favor. Ever.
