It’s a capital C Conservative, not a small c conservative. That puts it in the tradition of the John Birch Society and William F. Buckley. Those Conservatives who, heedless of the warning one of their own, Barry Goldwater, embraced the Southern Strategy and fused their antisocial and regressive economic ideas with the culture of the Confederacy and the Bible Belt, creating a coalition capable of winning elections. When they captured the white working class under Nixon, they became very, very powerful. Watergate slowed them, but they came back stronger with St. Ronald Reagan. Obama shook them up, but they responded with the Tea Party, and then Trump. All the while The Heritage Foundation pursued Operation REDMAP to capture statehouses and packed the Courts with their acolytes.
All results of the kind of political thinking that caught fire during and after the Civil Rights movement began having an actual effect on people's lives.
Citizens United, Holder v. Shelby, Dobbs, and Trump. All of them together comprise the greatest assault on our democracy since… well, forever.
You can thank conservative Court for that! SCOTUS needs reform. 4 moderate liberals right off.
This is not a conservative court but a radical right wing authoritarian, power grabbing misogynist court, legislating from the bench.
It’s a capital C Conservative, not a small c conservative. That puts it in the tradition of the John Birch Society and William F. Buckley. Those Conservatives who, heedless of the warning one of their own, Barry Goldwater, embraced the Southern Strategy and fused their antisocial and regressive economic ideas with the culture of the Confederacy and the Bible Belt, creating a coalition capable of winning elections. When they captured the white working class under Nixon, they became very, very powerful. Watergate slowed them, but they came back stronger with St. Ronald Reagan. Obama shook them up, but they responded with the Tea Party, and then Trump. All the while The Heritage Foundation pursued Operation REDMAP to capture statehouses and packed the Courts with their acolytes.
All results of the kind of political thinking that caught fire during and after the Civil Rights movement began having an actual effect on people's lives.