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42bb084b | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @26f2d622 

Mitt Romney built THIS Republican Party. Institutionalized racism, misogyny, homophobia, and white Christian separatism as party platform. No matter how "conservative" Republicans claimed to be, The Southern Strategy was the core value and singular driving force for the past 60 years. MAGA isn't a symptom, it's result
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b2593431 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @26f2d622 @0d9708df I’m in Wisconsin and a lot of folks these days cheer on Charlie Sykes and his bulwark, but many of remember listening to years of his rush Limbaugh b.s.. No, people like Charlie & Romney built MAGA. They lobbied for the bills that allowed the right wing media machine to exist though repeal of regulation and non enforcement of antitrust laws.
No they built it, now they want to be held blameless or worse they want to play the martyr