You can pretty much chart it going into warp speed when Falwell and the Moral Majority went into politics in 1979. The beginning of the end, and the start of this dark mainstream Christian nationalism. It was starting before then, but that is when they stomped on the gas.
Don't forget the Southern Strategy where Nixon found his path to victory by peeling racist southerners off the Democratic party to form the modern Republican party
Those who seek absolutepower, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellishtyrannies.
And another:
Republicans are selling their soul to win elections. Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. The government won't work without it. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
Said in November 1994, as quoted in John Dean, Conservatives Without Conscience (2006).
That's the thing. I'm not defending these fuckers at any moment in history, but the most poignant thing we can say is about the nature of the curve.
Apples to apples things are remarkably different, though, no? If you pulled the staunch ones into today and explained the Epstein files, crypto rug pulls, etc...
In the 70s, Nixon initiated a CIA program to stamp out moderately left wing governments in Latin America and Catholic liberation theology that let to significant loss of life and oppression. This was done in conjunction with evangelical churches, including funding their operation
I mean, we are bombing indiscriminately, cozying up to the worst dictators, having a president who in all likelihood was indispensable to child trafficking, threatening war against our friends to take over their island, having billionaires invade the systems that protect us, are now monitoring (at scale) the actions of the other branches of government by one, and above all else most of this is being led by a traitor who is in cognitive decline and never did anything other than fail upward in his entire life.
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iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org · 48 pts · 181d
"Decline" would suppose that there was any substance there to begin with...
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 180d
I'm not old enough to say 100%, but it seems like 2026 Republicans are a completely different beast than the 70s-90s.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 180d
By the 90's Republicans were in the infant stage of what they have become. Now they are full grown mask off.
ugandan_airways@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 180d
You can pretty much chart it going into warp speed when Falwell and the Moral Majority went into politics in 1979. The beginning of the end, and the start of this dark mainstream Christian nationalism. It was starting before then, but that is when they stomped on the gas.
btsax@reddthat.com · 7 pts · 180d
Don't forget the Southern Strategy where Nixon found his path to victory by peeling racist southerners off the Democratic party to form the modern Republican party
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 180d
In their own word, from Republican senator Barry Goldwater:
And another:
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
Newt Gingrich. The prototype of everything that came after.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
That's the thing. I'm not defending these fuckers at any moment in history, but the most poignant thing we can say is about the nature of the curve.
Apples to apples things are remarkably different, though, no? If you pulled the staunch ones into today and explained the Epstein files, crypto rug pulls, etc...
gnuthing@piefed.social · 4 pts · 180d
In the 70s, Nixon initiated a CIA program to stamp out moderately left wing governments in Latin America and Catholic liberation theology that let to significant loss of life and oppression. This was done in conjunction with evangelical churches, including funding their operation
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 180d
I mean, we are bombing indiscriminately, cozying up to the worst dictators, having a president who in all likelihood was indispensable to child trafficking, threatening war against our friends to take over their island, having billionaires invade the systems that protect us, are now monitoring (at scale) the actions of the other branches of government by one, and above all else most of this is being led by a traitor who is in cognitive decline and never did anything other than fail upward in his entire life.
I just think the bar has shifted quite a bit, no?
gnuthing@piefed.social · 0 pts · 180d
No, the only difference is they're doing it here now too
discocactus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 180d
It's the same. They're just bolder and we're more docile.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
White supremacy is the only thing conservatives have ever believed in.
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 1 pts · 180d
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 181d
Somehow they've found a new low every year that passes. I am terrified where they will go from here.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 180d
Decline? Haha sure, let me know when they start eating themselves.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
nov 2025 article
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 180d
November 2025
duckshuffgoose@piefed.social · 1 pts · 180d
thank you. saved me some pain seeing if this was on my miniflux
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · -2 pts · 181d
It’s not just the Right. But they are all pulling their weight.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · -17 pts · 181d
Nope, wrong
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 180d
Pathetic, misguided
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 180d
You needed to brigade to feel better. You’re weak and I hope you spent hours switch alts just to press little arrows, weirdo
You have already lost
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 180d
Lmaorofl
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · -7 pts · 180d
Oh a barcode. We all know you’re trash.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 180d
Ad hominem attacks are typically used when the point is not defensible
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · -5 pts · 180d
Barcode.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 180d
forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org · -1 pts · 180d
That meme is pretty fucking ironic.
Given the guy in the picture is a prolapsed anus. So, if you're represented by him, well....
Not a great look