With the rise of the Tea Party, many pundits claimed that this isn’t your grandfather’s conservative movement anymore, that the right had fundamentally changed. But considering how today’s conservative extremism almost perfectly fits into the party’s age-old war against the 1960s, and seeing how right-wing politicians like King are now happy to contextualize their positions within that war, we see that it actually is your grandfather’s conservative movement — and that’s the problem.
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Behind the GOP’s OWS backlash - Republican Party - Salon.com (via mattgriffin) Couldn’t agree more. |
