Reagan was an extremist. He was just charismatic enough to make it charming. “The scariest words” bullshit really stuck, and he made it seem like the government was the enemy whilst running the government. Trump et al are just the next phase of the same process.
Reagan bribed the Iranians to continue holding American hostages until after the election to improve his chances of winning. He’s a traitor.
You could run back to the '64 convention and the Goldwater campaign if you want to talk about extremism. But even that sells short how much of a frothing fascist-loving freak Eisenhower ended up proving himself to be by the time he handed the keys over to Kennedy.
If you want to talk about extremism, we can talk about Coolidge and Hoover - men who paved the road to the death of laisse-faire capitalism after presiding over the biggest pump-and-dump scheme yet seen in world history. Hell, Hoover’s landslide defeat in '32 was a direct result of his absolute inability to admit he was wrong after a full term in office presiding over the Great Depression.
And they’re all incredibly unpopular for their insane behavior. Marjorie, Boebert, Gaetz…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Along with the likes of the far-right media figures Alex Jones, VDare’s Peter Brimelow, and Milo Yiannopoulos, the white nationalist Richard Spencer was a prominent attendee that year, and he told the Washington Post that he and other extremists had enjoyed “one big, bourbon-fueled party” in unofficial side venues around the convention center.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s main stage convention speech on Monday night was full of falsehoods and distortions about immigrants and LGBTQ+ advocates and dog whistles about “globalists”, and it featured a gratuitous assertion that “there are only two genders, and we are made in God’s image”.
Just weeks earlier, Robinson told congregants at a church in the town of White Lake that “some folks need killing”, apparently with reference to perceived political adversaries , such as those who espouse “socialism and communism”.
The Guardian reported this week that one such speaker, the California lawyer Harmeet Dhillon, was greeted with a barrage of hateful tweets from Trump’s far-right supporters after performing a benediction with a Sikh prayer the same night.
His Turning Point Action Pac’s event last month hosted the likes of Candace Owens, the rightwing commentator with a lengthening history of antisemitic remarks; the Pizzagate conspiracy theory peddler Jack Posobiec, who has extensive links to extremists; and Alex Jones.
Blocks away from the conference, the Heritage Foundation, one of the richest and most influential conservative non-profits, reasserted its comprehensive Project 2025 plan to remake the US government in the radical right’s image, spelled out in 922-page document first issued in April.
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