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In reply to the discussion: How Republicans used to be: [View all]erronis
(15,181 posts)9. Always enjoy your viewpoints. I met quite a few Republicans back in the 50s - 70s
only because my father worked with many administrations (Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon...). Many of them were fine people even if anti-social programs.
Things really went south (southern strategy?) with Nixon although there was plenty of skulduggery during every one. Reagan epitomized the "government is the problem" altho he made government the problem. The beginning of saying-what-you-don't-mean?
Once the vultures got their claws into government via lobbyists, bribes and blackmail, there was no more sense of governance for the people. They're still here.
As Shakespeare might have said: "First, get rid of K Street."
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I would think they would be embarrassed by this ass in the WH, but so many love him
RKP5637
Jul 2020
#1
A hundred years later... "On 14 July 2008, the Indianola post office was renamed in her honor"
progressoid
Jul 2020
#5
Always enjoy your viewpoints. I met quite a few Republicans back in the 50s - 70s
erronis
Jul 2020
#9
I remember when there were good Republicans. Things started to sour in the 1970s.
japple
Jul 2020
#17
Current Republicans love to claim hims as their own, but their counterparts at the time...
JHB
Jul 2020
#10
Absolutely a fair question. I don't know how to classify these types of people.
erronis
Jul 2020
#11
Teddy Roosevelt LOVED killing animals that had absolutely no chance to fight back. i don't get it
BamaRefugee
Jul 2020
#13
TR was no peach. He did great things (trust busting and national parks) but he also
Squinch
Jul 2020
#21
I hate it that Nixon gets any credit at all for the EPA. He fought the concept tooth and nail, but
Nitram
Jul 2020
#32