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.
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.