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In reply to the discussion: Eisenhower nailed it in 1956. Those words now describe the Repuke party. [View all]wnylib
(21,428 posts)36. Yup. They took advantage of resentments
among working class Dems toward the civil rights and women's rights movements of the 60s and 70s to recruit them as Reagan Democrats. The racists and misogynists flocked to the Rs and made politics about racial and gender "culture wars" instead of about economics and rights of ALL the middle and working class people. Rs were happy to tell their new recruits that "the other" was responsible for all economic and social problems, and the fools believed them because they wanted to hear and believe what they were told.
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Eisenhower nailed it in 1956. Those words now describe the Repuke party. [View all]
MoonRiver
May 2021
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Add Jack Kemp, George Romney, Everett Dirksen, Jacob Javits, Kenneth Keating, and Mark Hatfield of
NBachers
May 2021
#39
The early drafts of his speech mentioned the military-industrial-congressional complex.
LastDemocratInSC
May 2021
#12
The Republicans have recruited Dixiecrats, Tea baggers and deplorables to carry water for the 1%.
Marcuse
May 2021
#21
I read somewhere that Ike knew about the right-wing crazies but didn't like them.
raging moderate
May 2021
#29