@RadioFreeTom Conservativism in the ReaganThatcherBush years was all about fear of Others as voter motivation. Maybe you were too young to remember or notice the Atwater Doctrine & its gender equivalents, but all who were its targets certainly undertood Philadelphia MS, Willie Horton, etc.
@RadioFreeTom Tories & Republicans have never ‘merely’ used racism & racists, sexism & sexists to appeal to your eternal conservative base of scared white ppl in order to push the ‘real’ goals of tax cuts, foreign wars & austerity-for-other-people’s-faces to make the rich richer.
@RadioFreeTom Though that would be shameful enough.
@RadioFreeTom When did Newt Gingrich & Rush Limbaugh & Phyllis Schlafly stop being ‘real’ conservatives? Was Ann Coulter not a ‘real’ conservative when she was calling for genocide, forced conversions, repealing the 19th in 2001-2?
@RadioFreeTom Was Par Buchanan ever a real conservative, or has he been utterly memory-holed now? Nothing you disdain on FOX now was not preached by your movement’s leaders for the past 50 years - incl the ‘demographic winter’ & ‘Christian West’ rhetoric of the ‘alt’ right.
@RadioFreeTom You are as deeply mired in denial re past failures as Trump himself.
@RadioFreeTom Oh and let’s not forget Matt Drudge and his firehose of sludge through the 90s, Hillary a secret lesbian!! the GOP freakout at the thought of allowing LGBT ppl to serve openly in military, DOMA - I’m sure you’d love to, but we haven’t! TRUMP DIDN’T START ANY OF THAT.
@RadioFreeTom Blame FOX all you like, but Ailes was Nixon’s man & Murdoch served Thatcher well long before exporting the Sun’s special brand of hate to US television. Tory Andrew Sullivan promoted the Bell Curve’s racism & your side ate it up w both hands just as Atwater explained.
@RadioFreeTom A ‘scientific’ excuse for not hiring or investing in minority schools - just a waste bc they’re genetically incorrigible, only good for physical labour! And it wasn’t liberals pushing the War on a Multilingual America all these decades. Remember Pete King?
@RadioFreeTom Remember Bush saying atheists can’t be real citizens? And ‘fiscal conservativism’ was always a joke, w every GOP admin leaving a bigger debt from each Democratic admin’s surplus. Were you just unobservant, or even more gullible than Carrier’s Trump voters?
@RadioFreeTom You can’t retcon away what your party/movement/side has always, quite openly, stood for: social inequality to benefit rich straight white Christian men only, with a few slots for tokens willing to be tools, thinking they’ll be face-eaten last. We were there; we remember.
@RadioFreeTom You shook hands w the theocratic Devil, even if you didn’t really believe in ‘pro-life’ & ‘Christian Nation & ‘Moral Majority’ w Buckley & Weyrich & Falwell & Bennett & all, can’t say you were only joking now... All this stuff is ON RECORD.
