Never forget that Trump was the culmination of 40 years of stagnant wages, widening inequality, corruption, dog-whistle

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8. Oh, yeah, I think that's definitely true when it came to...

...movement conservatives, the Orange County type in particular (see the book Suburban Warriors for a good discussion of this especially pernicious strain of movement conservatism). But the postwar planners were largely not movement conservatives. They were largely the Kennedy liberals. An argument could be made that they got bogged down with their ambitions in Vietnam, but there was probably more to it than that. Part of it (at least) is that our leadership just got complacent. And then they were ultimately defeated by the movement conservatives, who have laid waste to the New Deal consensus for 40 years now--and they continue to do so.

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