When David Brooks was 3 years old, Jackie Robinson, a longtime Republican, expressed regret that the GOP, by nominating staunch conservative Barry Goldwater, had embraced a racist variety of "conservatism" explicitly intended to attract votes from bigoted white people.
https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1441640827487338501
If you won't take Jackie Robinson's word for it, will you take Robert Novak's word?
https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1272264794846814208?s=20
Jackie Robinson compared his experience of attending the 1964 GOP convention (again, the very year the conservative movement gained its key foothold in the party) to being a Jew in Hitler's Germany.
https://twitter.com/SethCotlar/status/1035242392880705536?s=20
Anyway, I know Brooks identifies more as a Reagan or Rockefeller Republican than as a Goldwaterite, but you had to be pretty willfully obtuse not to see the abundant warning signs or heed the abundant voices of concern from 1964 on.
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