As I mentioned in a comment here already, the right’s embrace of christian nationalism as a movement banner is the straight line from Reagan to Trump. You can see this clearly when you watch the PBS Frontline doc on “Michael Flynn’s Holy War.” Antiliberalism started with christian nationalists declaring liberalism a national threat to ou…
As I mentioned in a comment here already, the right’s embrace of christian nationalism as a movement banner is the straight line from Reagan to Trump. You can see this clearly when you watch the PBS Frontline doc on “Michael Flynn’s Holy War.” Antiliberalism started with christian nationalists declaring liberalism a national threat to our society and culture via abortions, communism, socialism, immigration, and secularism in government. All of these line items represented things that radical traditionalists wanted erased from our national DNA. The only difference between Reagan and now is the degree of their insanity and their abandonment of the GOP compromisers. They only pick politicians who fight instead of compromise now, that’s the only difference.
Also, the “what happened?” cutoff conveniently starts at Reagan instead of say, Charles Lindberg or Calvin Coolidge. Watch the Ken Burns doc on America & the Holocaust and *then* try telling me that the MAGA movement is new (rather than a current take on very old conservative racial and cultural manifestations of resentment). The *only* difference between Reagan’s day and Trump’s is that during Reagan’s day the GOP braintrust had full control of their voter-milling operation. After Romney lost in ‘12, the GOP braintrust began losing that control. When Trump came down the escalator in ‘15, he understood that an out-of-control base was easier for him to control than an in-control base. Trump excels in chaotic environments, so when he saw the GOP base *truly* losing its shit after 2012, he knew that the moment had come when the GOP base would wrap their arms around someone like him instead of someone like Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney.
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As I mentioned in a comment here already, the right’s embrace of christian nationalism as a movement banner is the straight line from Reagan to Trump. You can see this clearly when you watch the PBS Frontline doc on “Michael Flynn’s Holy War.” Antiliberalism started with christian nationalists declaring liberalism a national threat to our society and culture via abortions, communism, socialism, immigration, and secularism in government. All of these line items represented things that radical traditionalists wanted erased from our national DNA. The only difference between Reagan and now is the degree of their insanity and their abandonment of the GOP compromisers. They only pick politicians who fight instead of compromise now, that’s the only difference.
Also, the “what happened?” cutoff conveniently starts at Reagan instead of say, Charles Lindberg or Calvin Coolidge. Watch the Ken Burns doc on America & the Holocaust and *then* try telling me that the MAGA movement is new (rather than a current take on very old conservative racial and cultural manifestations of resentment). The *only* difference between Reagan’s day and Trump’s is that during Reagan’s day the GOP braintrust had full control of their voter-milling operation. After Romney lost in ‘12, the GOP braintrust began losing that control. When Trump came down the escalator in ‘15, he understood that an out-of-control base was easier for him to control than an in-control base. Trump excels in chaotic environments, so when he saw the GOP base *truly* losing its shit after 2012, he knew that the moment had come when the GOP base would wrap their arms around someone like him instead of someone like Paul Ryan or Mitt Romney.
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