Honestly I don’t know what’s going on in the USA. You’re so proud of your “democracy and freedom” yet one of your 2 political parties is able to effectively dismantle the entire thing in less than a decade. You’re now one election away from being a christofascist state.
…and yet you’re all just going to work tomorrow. You’re all doing pretty much nothing except “make sure you vote in 2024.” So I guess every 4 years you’re going to be one election away from a literal Nazi takeover?
I don’t know. Riot or something. I have no idea how you’re all coping so hard.
I’d add a couple more decades on that, GOP’s degradation roots in 1950s during Eisenhower/Nixon and was later cemented by Nixon/Spiro. The Southern Strategy and “Silent Majority” with increasingly crypto racism were all Nixon hallmarks. Reagan built on them in the 80s and things have only got more extreme with modern right wing media in the 90s of course, but it all roots back to those early post-WWII years when so many things changed.
The influence of Newt Gingrich on American politics can’t be understated. He may not have started the dirty tricks and aimless obstructivism, but he codified the tactics and brought them mainstream in the nineties.