Back before the Reagan Revolution … a third of America had a good union job, our schools were brand-new and well supplied and staffed, college was free, healthcare was inexpensive, and the biggest challenge America had was to put a man on the moon and bring him safely home — there was little demand for a dictator in this country.
… For the majority of white Americans to adopt a strongman authoritarian, first the country had to be broken and broken badly.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thomhartmann/p/was-the-gop-plan-all-along-to-break-d9b
@rberger It was indeed the plan all along.
The GOP has always been a minority party. After the Southern Strategy absorbed the Dixiecrats into the Republican Party, those Dixiecrats and Christian Fundamentalists realized that they would never win control of the country through democracy.
So the game changed to subversion and sabotage of government, physically and financially, in order to break it and create the conditions where another form of government can be established.
