Trump’s Turned Republicans Into Everything They Once Hated: New at Reason

Donald Trump’s caused some role reversal in American politics.

A. Barton Hinkle writes:

If you could jump into a Wayback Machine and travel to the United States, circa late 1960s, you would find the country torn between two political tribes.

One tribe consisted of anti-establishment radicals who preached sexual license and thought Washington was a nest of vipers that conspired with one another to thwart social and economic progress. They were not necessarily communist, but they did not hold with the orthodox view that the Soviet Union represented a threat to the United States. The more extreme elements, such as the Weather Underground, favored the use of violence to bring about the sort of society in which they believed.

These people were the New Left.

The other tribe consisted of pro-establishment Middle Americans who cherished traditional morality, believed in law and order, and venerated institutions such as the FBI. They abhorred Russia and the pinkos who were soft on communism, and they considered radical elements in American society—especially the ones prone to violence—a grave threat to the nation.

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