▲ 182 ▼ The Intellectual and Moral Decline of the American Right (www.theatlantic.com) submitted 6 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 29 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago (3 children) By the 90's Republicans were in the infant stage of what they have become. Now they are full grown mask off. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 months ago (2 children) You can pretty much chart it going into warp speed when Falwell and the Moral Majority went into politics in 1979. The beginning of the end, and the start of this dark mainstream Christian nationalism. It was starting before then, but that is when they stomped on the gas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] btsax@reddthat.com 7 points 6 months ago Don't forget the Southern Strategy where Nixon found his path to victory by peeling racist southerners off the Democratic party to form the modern Republican party permalink fedilink source parent [–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* In their own word, from Republican senator Barry Goldwater: Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. And another: Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. Said in November 1994, as quoted in John Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience (2006). permalink fedilink source parent [–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago Newt Gingrich. The prototype of everything that came after. permalink fedilink source parent [–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago That's the thing. I'm not defending these fuckers at any moment in history, but the most poignant thing we can say is about the nature of the curve. Apples to apples things are remarkably different, though, no? If you pulled the staunch ones into today and explained the Epstein files, crypto rug pulls, etc... permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 months ago (2 children) You can pretty much chart it going into warp speed when Falwell and the Moral Majority went into politics in 1979. The beginning of the end, and the start of this dark mainstream Christian nationalism. It was starting before then, but that is when they stomped on the gas. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] btsax@reddthat.com 7 points 6 months ago Don't forget the Southern Strategy where Nixon found his path to victory by peeling racist southerners off the Democratic party to form the modern Republican party permalink fedilink source parent [–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* In their own word, from Republican senator Barry Goldwater: Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. And another: Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. Said in November 1994, as quoted in John Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience (2006). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] btsax@reddthat.com 7 points 6 months ago Don't forget the Southern Strategy where Nixon found his path to victory by peeling racist southerners off the Democratic party to form the modern Republican party permalink fedilink source parent
[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago* In their own word, from Republican senator Barry Goldwater: Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. And another: Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. Said in November 1994, as quoted in John Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience (2006). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago Newt Gingrich. The prototype of everything that came after. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago That's the thing. I'm not defending these fuckers at any moment in history, but the most poignant thing we can say is about the nature of the curve. Apples to apples things are remarkably different, though, no? If you pulled the staunch ones into today and explained the Epstein files, crypto rug pulls, etc... permalink fedilink source parent