McCarthy Says ‘We’re In a Very Bad Place Right Now’ Thanks to ‘Crazy Members Led By Gaetz’
McCarthy Says ‘We’re In a Very Bad Place Right Now’ Thanks to ‘Crazy Members Led By Gaetz’
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) did not mince words about the state of the House Republican conference on Friday, saying it's in a tough spot at the moment.
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I would say it was all republicans for the last 50 years that's got us to this very bad place.
yep. Institutionalized racism, misogyny, homophobia, and white Christian separatism as party platform. No matter how "conservative" Republicans claimed to be, The Southern Strategy was the core value and singular driving force for the past 60 years. MAGA isn't a symptom, it's result
Why else was/is GOP leadership shitting themselves over immigration? The "other" is always an easy target to get the morons onboard, but even more so, they didn't want to see demographic change. Their whole platform relied on it.
It was the story they told to get the morons out to the polls for them. The morons were never supposed to take controlled and yet they did, first with the tea party and then with trump
Go back further. First the Moral Majority in 1979.
right, but the elite still controlled things. the dumb rubers were meant to fall for it and vote for the tax cutters. but then the dumb rubes primaried too many republicans and the inmates now run the asylum.
Only going back to the 70s? Shit, I'd place it at the feet of the OG McCarthy from the 50s
Reagan is when things really started to go to shit, though.
Oh for sure. Reagan was the worst president of the last 100 years by miles.
Well, besides Trump.
Don't worry, he's tied with Bush for second place
Trump was such a horrific president he actually makes Bush look like a good president.
The whole yellowcake fantasy really messed things up for a lot of people.
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The swap occurred sometime between the turn of the century and the great depression. The dust had mostly settled by the fifties due to the socdem policies of the Roosevelt presidency in the 30s and 40s, furthered by the Republican Southern Strategy after the short-lived Dixiecrats campaigned on racism. Dixiecrats were purely reactionary to desegregation, it was mostly progressive liberals in the south that were racist. Nixon was basically forced to pass the NEPA due to growing unrest around environmental harm. Hippies weren't a target of the war on drugs just because they believed in free love.