Trump isn’t the same as republicans from decades past
He really really is though, we’ve just been kidding ourselves about how fucked the Republican party’s been. Goldwater was dog whistling at klan members to turn out the vote in the mid 60s, Nixon conspired with a foreign government to sabotage the USs foreign policy when he was still a candidate in the late 60s, McCarthy led a reign of terror in the 50s that destroyed people’s careers and lives for bullshit reasons, etc.
The party lost its mind because the Great Depression and New Deal just totally repudiated their ideology and they can’t face that truth, so they have resorted to more and more extreme measures to ignore reality and cook up conspiracy theories, and it went past the point where we can tolerate it decades ago.
Most people didn’t realize that until Trump happened. Most politicians are liars and criminals, to an extent, and government has always been kinda messed up. My point is that this time, it isn’t just more of the same. Trump is a genuine threat to our democracy.
He really really is though, we’ve just been kidding ourselves about how fucked the Republican party’s been. Goldwater was dog whistling at klan members to turn out the vote in the mid 60s, Nixon conspired with a foreign government to sabotage the USs foreign policy when he was still a candidate in the late 60s, McCarthy led a reign of terror in the 50s that destroyed people’s careers and lives for bullshit reasons, etc.
The party lost its mind because the Great Depression and New Deal just totally repudiated their ideology and they can’t face that truth, so they have resorted to more and more extreme measures to ignore reality and cook up conspiracy theories, and it went past the point where we can tolerate it decades ago.
Most people didn’t realize that until Trump happened. Most politicians are liars and criminals, to an extent, and government has always been kinda messed up. My point is that this time, it isn’t just more of the same. Trump is a genuine threat to our democracy.