So, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who does not much participate in the legislative process other than occasionally trying to stop it, and has lost all her committee assignments, raised over 3 million bucks in the last quarter.
A really good first-quarter haul for a freshman member of Congress who’s actually getting things done would be $250,000 to a half million dollars. Greene blew the doors out.
But why?
There was a time in America when “conservative” meant, “In favor of moving toward a better country, but doing it slowly and cautiously.”
We use the word “conservative,” in fact, to generically mean “cautiously.”
But the last five years have irrefutably shown that when American politicians use the word conservative these days, what they really mean is white supremacist.
White supremacy has become the central brand of today’s Republican Party, and, in retrospect, has been at the core of that Party’s explicit efforts ever since Richard Nixon’s 1968 Southern Strategy.
And for “movement conservatives” it really dates even farther back than that. Consider one of the top founders of today’s conservative movement (and of the National Review publication), William F. Buckley.
People of a certain age (like me) well remember Buckley’s 1966-1999 show Firing Line every Sunday on PBS as he pontificated about the wonders of “conservatism” and promoted Republican politicians. My dad was a religious viewer; it was a major force in national politics.
In a 1957 editorial titled Why the South Must Prevail, he laid out explicitly what the foundation of conservatism must be.
“A fool and his money are easily parted” and what are Qpublicans but a merry band of fools?
Don’t forget that the KKK started as an arm of the democrat party.
I know... liberals never learned history or understand the dynamics of today’s politics.
A rose by any other name...the KKK were regressives, conservatives, racists and all around shit humans. Today that rose is called “Republican”. “Conservatives never learned history or understand the dynamics of today’s politics”.
Well, way back when the democrats were the racist party, but then Truman desegregated the military, and later Jonson signed the Civil Rights Act, which left the racist feeling disenfranchised. So, Nixon came up with the "Southern Strategy" to appeal to the disenfranchised racists, and he won. And ever since the republican party has catered to the racists... and all the KKK members today are now almost all republicans, as most of the "blue dog democrats" or "Dixiecrats" have (mostly) pretty much died of old age.
That is where things stand today, which those know history (and political dynamics) are aware of.
You only see confederate and Nazi flags at republican events these days.