A story about that time in 1962 when a group of former Silver Shirts and present white nationalists and Christian supremacists came close to taking over the Multnomah County Republican Party.
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Please, please continue this important work of exposure. I try to read most every of your posts and continually find them well researched and illuminating.
I grew up in 1970s in a wealthy suburb of LA. No shortage of rabid anti Jews and Nazis there then. So much of what you write therefore is utterly imaginable…the conspiracists, the crazies, the give me my country back thugs. I left the U.S. 35 years ago and have lived abroad since. Recently (thank you, internet) I checked back on 2016 voting records for my hometown. Unbelievably it went 11 fking points for Hillary. Clearly some demographic change has occurred (and timely die-offs!), as that result wwould have been impossible in even the 1990s. Maybe it’s still an R district, but clearly not enamored with the Orange Brand.
“ 1) It’s wrong to say that the GOP has always been like this”
I’m glad to see someone on the American left say this, yes it’s true that the seeds were being planted and it is ever arguable that it was always heading to this conclusion but the Never Trumpers at places like The Bulwark were key figures in the Republican Party for years and instead of the left constantly yelling at them ‘you were always like this’ they should stop more often and consider just how hard it is to walk away from your tribe even for the average politically engaged voter who gets no more involved than reading an ideologically friendly newspaper, imagine how hard it is to do when it was literally your life, your profession and your passion, yet people like Bill Kristol who were literal pillars of the GOP establishment and Rick Wilson who were partisan knife fighters said ‘no’ and walked away and fought what’s happened, now you can’t pretend that these people were both key figures in the party and that the party was always a monolith that was deliberately heading in this direction by the unanimous choice of its elites
It really is a lot more complicated than that and despite all the mistakes they obviously made we can’t pretend this was what they wanted
Presuming the Union in Union ave was named related to Labour unions and that it was a Democratic council that changed the name then there is also a story there about the move of the Democratic Party from the class based Union backed focus of the FDR/Truman Democratic Party to the more identity politics focused party we see today
Not saying anything wrong with naming the street after someone who is after all a secular saint in America and arguably the world, but if that is what happened it’s interesting nonetheless
Another great piece about the far-right movement and the fascism they have always subscribed to, instead of the belief in democracy. The founders of the Republican Party would not recognize what it has become today.
Great research!
Yes, I understand now that leaders killed our democracy GOOD-FAITH STANDARDS LINGUISTICALLY SIMPLE uneducated but informed citizenry judgments changes about 1969. Born in 1962, I have been enlightened for today by reparations of my glorious breathing brain 🧠 🙌 I REJOICE IN GRACE'S PURPOSE FOR HUMANITY PURPOSES TO SHARE OUR THOUGHTS AND EXPERIENCES WITH WHOMEVER IS LISTENING AS ANCESTORS COLLECTIVELY EXZAULTING BASICS COMMUNIONS SAFTEY HEALTHY CITIZENS FREEWILL 💙 is 🇺🇦 🙌 ✨️ sentient BREATH SURVIVAL together with truth unfettered HEALS always all chaos immediately when revealed by material evidence.
Please, please continue this important work of exposure. I try to read most every of your posts and continually find them well researched and illuminating.
I grew up in 1970s in a wealthy suburb of LA. No shortage of rabid anti Jews and Nazis there then. So much of what you write therefore is utterly imaginable…the conspiracists, the crazies, the give me my country back thugs. I left the U.S. 35 years ago and have lived abroad since. Recently (thank you, internet) I checked back on 2016 voting records for my hometown. Unbelievably it went 11 fking points for Hillary. Clearly some demographic change has occurred (and timely die-offs!), as that result wwould have been impossible in even the 1990s. Maybe it’s still an R district, but clearly not enamored with the Orange Brand.
“ 1) It’s wrong to say that the GOP has always been like this”
I’m glad to see someone on the American left say this, yes it’s true that the seeds were being planted and it is ever arguable that it was always heading to this conclusion but the Never Trumpers at places like The Bulwark were key figures in the Republican Party for years and instead of the left constantly yelling at them ‘you were always like this’ they should stop more often and consider just how hard it is to walk away from your tribe even for the average politically engaged voter who gets no more involved than reading an ideologically friendly newspaper, imagine how hard it is to do when it was literally your life, your profession and your passion, yet people like Bill Kristol who were literal pillars of the GOP establishment and Rick Wilson who were partisan knife fighters said ‘no’ and walked away and fought what’s happened, now you can’t pretend that these people were both key figures in the party and that the party was always a monolith that was deliberately heading in this direction by the unanimous choice of its elites
It really is a lot more complicated than that and despite all the mistakes they obviously made we can’t pretend this was what they wanted
“Union Av (now MLK, Jr. Blvd,”
Presuming the Union in Union ave was named related to Labour unions and that it was a Democratic council that changed the name then there is also a story there about the move of the Democratic Party from the class based Union backed focus of the FDR/Truman Democratic Party to the more identity politics focused party we see today
Not saying anything wrong with naming the street after someone who is after all a secular saint in America and arguably the world, but if that is what happened it’s interesting nonetheless
Another great piece about the far-right movement and the fascism they have always subscribed to, instead of the belief in democracy. The founders of the Republican Party would not recognize what it has become today.
Arthur Butz is tenured and still teaching at Northwestern
I understand if you feel the need to ban Ms Thobois, but I hope you leave her comment up. It is a thing of beauty.