Alan: Republican presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, the living American who has served longest as a White House senior staff adviser, observed: “The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.” “Where the Right Went Wrong"
"The Perfect Definition Of A Republican"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/there-is-neither-nobility-nor-kindness.html
Nancy McLean, in _Democracy in Chains:....._ laid out a massive trove of documents showing how the GOP got to where it is now. It started with Brown v Board, was accelerated with Nixon's Southern Strategy, annd was accelerated anew by Gingrich's Tea Party, and was authenticated by the 2000 and 2010 census returns showing White's will be a minority by 2040. Their goal is to replace the democratic republic with a minority rule over a society consisting of 'the riders and the ridden.'
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DeleteI remember when you introduced me to Nancy MacClean's important - even linchpin - work.
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Here is a talk MacLean gave in Vancouver: "The Rise Of The Radical Right" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCb38QC4ofU (MacLean gets on a roll around the 7 minute mark.)
And here a talk she gave at Harvard Law School about her landmark book, On October 16, 2017, Duke history professor Nancy MacLean spoke at Harvard Law School about her book, "Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eowEmcS75JM