Reddit reviews The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism

Fuck that guy so hard.

The book The Red and The Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism gets into all that ish.

E. Ugh amazon links.

Tip for formating links: take out of the amazon title from the part in parenthesis, and only have the link in that part. Like this:

> The Red and The Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism.

Steve Kornacki just came out with his first book, The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism. I'm about half way through it, it's fantastic and explains so much.

Word salad? Maybe. I wrote it late at night.

Here's the thing, most people don't know that the Republican Party was created as a radical left party akin to the Green Party in its policies. After all, seeking the end of slavery and giving women the right to vote was seen as radical leftist ideals.

Lincoln was a little less radical, he wanted to legislate it out by making it economically infeasible and shrinking the pro-slavery states' powers.

But he would still be considered an antifa pink pussyhatted libtard by today's Republican standards. So would Reagan due to his policy on amnesty.

Because of this history, for many years up to Nixon & Reagan and their unholy alliance with the 'conservative' white evangelists, the Republican Party had a lot of fiscal conservative but liberal social Republicans. You can blame Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, Roger Stone, Roy Cohn, etc for that deal with the devil as well.

Liberal Republicans are why a lot of what LBJ did got passed and after Nixon & Reagan they slowly switched to Democrats. It actually wasn't until the 90s with Newt Gringrich that the full switch of the party ideolgies was completed and 2010 with the Tea Party that they became radicalized and completely intolerant of liberal policies.

(More of that here: The Red and the Blue: The 1990s and the Birth of Political Tribalism https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062438980/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_PB53BbYVNKMXX)

There are still people within the Republican Party who do not want to give up on Lincoln's party. The Log Cabin Republicans are part of that nearly extinct feature.

That was what I was trying to explain.

However, I had never heard of right wing LGBT peeps until recently. It just seems so anathema to who they are. Socially conservative means they wish to deny human rights to themselves.

And I had thought it would be akin to gay Nazis promoting Nazi agendas...until I recalled that they do exist as The Proud Boys.

And I just broke it down to cultish behavior. They have been radicalized and indoctrinated to this fantasy ideal of conservativism and how they think they are immune to the policies they believe in...sort of like the Wives in the Handmaid's Tale and how they actively worked achieved this religious society and thought they would be the exception and they weren't.

If they weren't so far down the rabbit hole of this cult they would realize they aren't sitting at the table, they are on the menu and they actively aiding in their own persecution.