re: #473 sagehen

Democrats used to be good at making people understand these things; after Republicans brought on the ‘29 crash and all that entailed, Democrats hung it around their necks and attached such big flashing neon signs it took them more than 20 years to get another chance at the presidency (and even then, only because they were able to recruit The Man Who Saved The World as their standard-bearer; he rehabbed the party’s image by aggressively opposing the party’s right wing at every possible opportunity — economics, foreign policy, cultural issues, he consistently told his generation’s wingnuts to go fuck themselves.)

The anti-Ike’s were so clearly seen for what they were… that it took another 40 years after that for R’s to retake Congress.

The Birchers thought Eisenhower was a Commie spy. Eisenhower, hero of WWII a commie spy. You’d think that alone would deter CPAC from inviting them but because CPAC is probably just around the same place the Birchers were at the height of the Red SCare, I guess it’s a okay. The GOP label has been pretty much shit since Ike left office. Nixon had a chance to reform it and Ford too but Nixon had to go embrace the old Southern bigots who were threatened by black people having equal rights.