It’s impossible to overstate how poorly Republicans reacted to the 2008 election. I hope when Mitch McConnell’s obituaries are published, they start with the fact that his leadership at that time created the modern dysfunction in the Republican Party. He, more than anyone, decided they should be a protest party rather than a governing one. I doubt his intent was to lose control and end up with MAGA but an inability to imagine the consequences doesn’t absolve him of responsibility.
Honestly the rot goes alllll the way back to Nixon and the Southern Strategy. They needed a bunch of racist idiots to win and to court a racist idiot you have to act like one. Eventually the “act” stops being an act and becomes the reality of the party.
It’s impossible to overstate how poorly Republicans reacted to the 2008 election. I hope when Mitch McConnell’s obituaries are published, they start with the fact that his leadership at that time created the modern dysfunction in the Republican Party. He, more than anyone, decided they should be a protest party rather than a governing one. I doubt his intent was to lose control and end up with MAGA but an inability to imagine the consequences doesn’t absolve him of responsibility.
I’d go as far back as Newt Gingrich.
Newt is the true architect for sure. McConnell just carried the torch for a while.
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Closest thing I can find to this is here:
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/boyernewt2.html
Honestly the rot goes alllll the way back to Nixon and the Southern Strategy. They needed a bunch of racist idiots to win and to court a racist idiot you have to act like one. Eventually the “act” stops being an act and becomes the reality of the party.
Republicans were so angry about Obama, for no reason they could ever articulate. It really helped me to understand them and their motivations.
wdym? tan suits, spicy dijon mustard, etc, their reasons are well documented.
Oh come now. That’ll be Newt Gingrich’s claim in our history books, don’t forget him!
They’ve been awful since at least the 80s.