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Tommymac

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27. I's say at least 60 year..

Thu Mar 25, 2021, 10:29 AM

Mar 2021

Goldwater started the modern Movement Conservative train moving.

I remember going to college in NC in the mid 1970's, I was a Democrat, and the 'Young Republican' Club on campus had just formed.

Those who joined it were zealous self-centered asshats who were social outcasts that no one really liked; but they laid the groundwork for Reaganism, and the negative Rushian/Gingrichian/Rovian rethuglican politics of hate that went mainstream in the the 1990's.

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I was thinking about this yesterday Skittles Mar 2021 #1

In Those Days, You Could Still Disagree COL Mustard Mar 2021 #8

YES Skittles Mar 2021 #31

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wow Skittles Mar 2021 #51

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Those Georgia election officials wnylib Mar 2021 #40

K&R, damn never EVERYONE of them are repeating the Big Lie to justify 1/6 uponit7771 Mar 2021 #3

I agree they're all stupid-as-fuck idiots OhioChick Mar 2021 #4

Word. Hanging is too good for them. OMGWTF Mar 2021 #50

The reason they are gone is a 40 year long program of recruiting ideologues whose Ford_Prefect Mar 2021 #5

They Started Down This Path COL Mustard Mar 2021 #9

I's say at least 60 year.. Tommymac Mar 2021 #27

I think the abolition of earmark spending removed prodigitalson Mar 2021 #38

The QAnon faction The Wizard Mar 2021 #57

When I was very young, as in "looking forward to my teenage years" DFW Mar 2021 #6

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I lived there pre-beltway DFW Mar 2021 #12

I've Lived In The DMV Since The Mid-80s COL Mustard Mar 2021 #13

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When I was married I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2021 #41

It was a sleepy little town when I was growing up DFW Mar 2021 #61

Where do you think it will go from here? Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #15

I think their split is possible. prodigitalson Mar 2021 #39

Lol! It's called Nazi Wives by James Wyllie. Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #47

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Thanks for a very considered answer. I tend to agree but I don't Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #65

The midterms will indeed be crucial DFW Mar 2021 #66

You're the first to get one of the references that made me choose my new name! Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #67

Back when I was in school DFW Mar 2021 #71

Lol. But I feel bad for them bc they miss so much. Scrivener7 Mar 2021 #72

That makes two of us! DFW Mar 2021 #73

I Came Of Age In The Mid 1970s COL Mustard Mar 2021 #7

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Much as I admire TR speak easy Mar 2021 #16

Larry Hogan? speak easy Mar 2021 #14

Nance's OP is written in bold colors to highlight a painful truth Tom Rinaldo Mar 2021 #17

Agreed. speak easy Mar 2021 #18

I live in Maryland I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2021 #44

They've been awful my whole life. Elessar Zappa Mar 2021 #19

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This only happens because it wins local elections apnu Mar 2021 #20

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This Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #43

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PA BumRushDaShow Mar 2021 #69

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Believe it or not, here in MA, our District had a GOP Congressman MissMillie Mar 2021 #22

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K & R jalan48 Mar 2021 #29

The most depressing aspect of the take over of the economic and political agenda by extremely ShazamIam Mar 2021 #30

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Send it to Manchin. moondust Mar 2021 #34

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The Limbaugh effect. Kingofalldems Mar 2021 #36

A very articulate description of a defunct Political Party. Ferrets are Cool Mar 2021 #42

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Money in politics/elections and the end of the Fairness doctrine Bristlecone Mar 2021 #53

Nope, no one. BobTheSubgenius Mar 2021 #54

Hence the Lincoln Project qwlauren35 Mar 2021 #55

So true. Pepsidog Mar 2021 #56

+ 1,000 nt Progressive Jones Mar 2021 #58

I was becoming politically alert, then active between ... electric_blue68 Mar 2021 #59

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