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« Last post by fohat.digs on Sun, 28 June 2026, 07:53:48 »
"QUESTION: Did Watergate propel Republicans into a “no more nice guy” mode?
Reagan’s pivot came 10 years after Lewis Powell’s memo which went along with vast encouragement of deeply biased anti-progressive media well funded by the likes of Richard Mellon Scaife. Then in the 1990s Newt Gingrich emerged as a confrontational political force that opposed any cooperation with Democrats and has greatly caused subsequent damage.
Anyway, just thinking out loud, about the way that the Republican party transmuted from the huge infrastructure investments of the Eisenhower period into a deeply destructive irresponsible entity that denied climate change, defunded family planning programs in the third world, and to reduce taxes, borrowed huge amounts of money, causing our current huge national debt, and the slashing of programs to help lower income Americans, while opposing raises in the minimum wage.
I think future historians will expose Republican behavior post 1980 as a real disaster for the well being of the American people."
- Robert Light 2026-06-07