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In reply to the discussion: George Will: Vote against Republicans [View all]janx
(24,128 posts)I can't help but notice how many Republicans who have jumped ship in one way or another still cling to the good old Reagan days--precisely the days when the Republican party shifted by appealing to the Dixiecrats/evangelicals.
That is when the real tribalism, the popular media term, started. It was fueled by talk radio and cable, but in the early days mostly the former. The Clintons were usually the targets and the subjects of the conspiracy theories hatched via those media.
(Yes, I know about the Southern Strategy, but it was during Reagan that the results really began to take shape.)
Why can't they acknowledge that? My guess is that many of these journalists got their start in those years and cannot admit or rationally analyze what happened.