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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: when did the GOP begin to suck? [View all]scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)37. 1865... financial matters... 1965... social matters
After 1865, they began to become the party of the well-to-do and the robber barons.
After 1965, they swallowed up all the ex-Dixiecrats and became the party of the bigots.
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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