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when did it start
hi rg,
i think you're right it's not recent.
but 30 years is too little.
From the right:
i can remember my father's interest in the Birch society in the early 60s, and reading "Human Events." In terms of anti communism, the Birchers claimed Eisenhower's Bro was 'card carrying.'
this takes us back to the Mc Carthy times, when liberals were called commie sympathizers and pinko.
From the left:
The Black panthers were saying 'off the pigs' in the 60s. The 'weathermen' date from that period, inluding robbing banks and setting explosions.
There are lunatic streams in American politics for decades, back to the Palmer raids of the 20s and earlier--'nativism.' The KKK dates to reconstruction, iirc.
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A couple other landmarks, more on your recent scale, from the right:
The GOP's 'southern strategy' is at least 20 years old, and has succeeded.
The 'reign' of Newt Gingerich in the House, with 'no holds barred'--he was minority whip in 1989, proposed the Contract with America in 1994, and became Speaker in 1995.
The mass popularizing of Rush Limbaugh now dates from about 1988, and the Clinton period, and he's broadcast to the US army.
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Ironically, it seems Clinton vastly energized the right; perhaps they felt they already deserved the White House and it was wrongfully denied them.
hi rg,
i think you're right it's not recent.
but 30 years is too little.
From the right:
i can remember my father's interest in the Birch society in the early 60s, and reading "Human Events." In terms of anti communism, the Birchers claimed Eisenhower's Bro was 'card carrying.'
this takes us back to the Mc Carthy times, when liberals were called commie sympathizers and pinko.
From the left:
The Black panthers were saying 'off the pigs' in the 60s. The 'weathermen' date from that period, inluding robbing banks and setting explosions.
There are lunatic streams in American politics for decades, back to the Palmer raids of the 20s and earlier--'nativism.' The KKK dates to reconstruction, iirc.
---
A couple other landmarks, more on your recent scale, from the right:
The GOP's 'southern strategy' is at least 20 years old, and has succeeded.
The 'reign' of Newt Gingerich in the House, with 'no holds barred'--he was minority whip in 1989, proposed the Contract with America in 1994, and became Speaker in 1995.
The mass popularizing of Rush Limbaugh now dates from about 1988, and the Clinton period, and he's broadcast to the US army.
----
Ironically, it seems Clinton vastly energized the right; perhaps they felt they already deserved the White House and it was wrongfully denied them.
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