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JD Vance keeps managing to say all the wrong things (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't buy their propaganda. They didn't become this under Trump. They have always been the protectors of wealth and privelige. You can trace that history right back to the birth of Conservativism in post-revolution France. This is just the latest incarnation.

I highly, highly recommend Corey Robin's book The Reactionary Mind. He breaks down the whole history of Conservativism in a very accessible manner, and shows how every incarnation of the movement has ultimately been about one thing and one thing only; preventing the enfranchisement of the disenfranchised.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah.. let's talk about Trickle Down economics if you want to see pre Trump examples of the same agenda.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This seems like a good spot to recommend Roberts Evans Behind the Bastards: How Conservatism Won. in which "Robert sits down with David Bell to discuss how a consortium of rich failsons got together to fund a network of right wing think tanks and shift American culture in a fun new direction. (note: it was not actually fun at all)." It's a bit long but is very informative.

tl;dr the rich hated FDRs New Deal and immediately set about undoing everything it touched, they want a return to the gilded age with themselves as the robber barons and gentry and everyone else as a subservient underclass

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Robert is a goddam treasure

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Evans for President

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Agreed, excellent recommendation.