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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: when did the GOP begin to suck? [View all]grantcart
(53,061 posts)30. Actually there is a very clear demarcation line.
When they adopted the "Southern Strategy".
The party of Lincoln decided to use Civil Rights as a wedge issue in order to take the large group of Democrats in the South who were against full equal rights.
They massaged their fears and they threw away any pretense of the national interest.
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most of the republicans before reagan would be conservative to moderate democrats now
madrchsod
May 2012
#5
actually Eisenhower was drafted as a republican... but Democrats were after him also..
oldhippydude
May 2012
#10
Too many of today's Republicans were working in the Reagan nest in one form or another.
LiberalFighter
May 2012
#38
I considered them a bunch of stinking rotters back in the Nixon years
struggle4progress
May 2012
#40