This is an interesting take, but from Phyllis Schlafly& #39;s marriage of convenience with the elements of the anti-abortion movement who thought death for the women and doctors was a suitable punishment that killed off the ERA to Reagan& #39;s firing of the air traffic controllers... https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1300964211858833410">https://twitter.com/RadioFree...

that effectively killed off the power of unions, I would make the case that this long predates Tucker Carlson& #39;s reign in the College Republicans. Perhaps you could credit how well Bircherism plays on Fox for the spread of ideas that "other" half the population...

but you can& #39;t honestly argue that those ideas were new or that they weren& #39;t used by ambitious Republicans at the national level to turn out "the rubes" (as Nichols refers to certain members of the party) every year since at least Roe v. Wade. /fin

P.S. I made an assumption in this thread that I shouldn& #39;t have: that it is widely understood how the switch of the Southern Democrats to the Republican party in the wake of Johnson& #39;s signing Civil Rights legislation was the beginning of the Bircher wing of the party taking over.