mybbqrules posted...
Well you see, way back when Nixon was president he broke the law. Like, badly. And he was going to be held accountable for that, and republicans decided that republicans being held accountable for anything ever again was no longer acceptable, so they began a long, drawn out plan to subvert our democracy through curtailing fair media, creating propaganda networks, playing up the culture wars, appealing to dummies and racists, and make politics a fucking contrarian circus.
And by and large, because America is loaded with hateful, selfish, ignorant dummies, it was more successful than they ever could have hoped for.
This is a seriously good summary of the second half of the GOP's descent into the cesspit of Satan.
The first half, IMO, started with the backlash to the New Deal by some filthy rich Republicans, which set them on a path to seeking to end the liberal democracy that had (horror of horrors)
raised their damn taxes
. These shitbirds got their chance when the civil rights realignment gave them a chance to lock in a GOP base that consisted of resentful racists and other fuckwits that would never need the GOP to deliver any useful policy for them, as long as their vile urges were sufficiently pandered to.
Of course, Nixon's southern strategy was a big part of this GOP strategy.