With TFG out of office, Republicans would prefer life in the 1950s, survey shows

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Forget iPhones and the existence of the Dallas Cowboys.

A recent survey released by the Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI) and the Brookings Institution found that only 29 percent of Republicans say that American culture and way of life have changed for the better since the 1950s.

The number is a leap down from 2020 when 46 percent of Republicans said American culture and way of life had changed for the better since the 1950s, but is only two points off from what Republicans said in 2016, before Donald Trump was elected President.

“It is notable that Republicans have gone up in their views during the Trump administration at the end at the height of his presidency and just a year later they have dropped down to where they were when Trump was running for President back in 2016,” said Robert P. Jones, the founder of the PPRI.

“Clearly they thought Trump was taking it back to a version more consistent to the vision of the country that was more consistent with the 1950s.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/happy-days-trump-office-republicans-160906141.html

They're nostalgic for a time when blacks and women were mostly in the background. I wonder how many of them knew the highest tax bracket was 91%.

https://www.tax-brackets.org/federaltaxtable/1951

[LakeVermilion]

1. Sure, until the have to

give up their cell phones, the internet, decent cars and transportation. Today's Ford 350 isn't your grandpa's Ford pickup. Let them go back to no cable news, black and white tv and warped 78 records.

[tanyev]

5. Yep, actual 50s is very different from nostalgia 50s.

Even for the people who would have had a pretty good life in the actual 50s.

[Tree Lady]

19. Yeah I would like to see them all

Cooking homemade, no door dish, uber eats, no drive through coffee or McDonalds, black and white tv without a remote. Mostly stick shift cars with no automatic anything.

Most households only had one car, push lawnmower and rake no blowers. Manual typewriters with carbon copies and I remember not allowed to make mistakes with invoices 4 copies thick.

Most people had party lines no private phone.

[regnaD kciN]

15. 78s were obsolete in the 50s...

The LP was introduced in 1948.

[GoCubsGo]

45. Their precious AR-15 wasn't around for nearly the entire decade, either.

It came about in 1959, and the vast majority of the population had no access to it then. Could you imagine what the 50's would have been like if those fuckers had those things then? Holy shit.

[Liberal In Texas]

53. Thinking about my grandfather in the 50s the other day, shoveling coal into his furnace for heat.

Up in the north with cold winters. No setting the thermostat and forgetting it. He had to go down to the basement periodically and shovel coal into the furnace. And once in awhile clear out the "clinkers" - the coal waste.

Yeah, most of these idiots weren't around in 50s and have no idea what they're talking about.

[LonePirate]

2. More like the 1850s - slavery not banned and no constitutional amendment for an income tax

Plus legislatures can still legally appoint US Senators.

[Texaswitchy]

3. Hell with the 50's.

I was born then but I have no real memories of them.
Mostly vague memories.

I bet the Republicans would like to go back.

No competition for white men.

[regnaD kciN]

17. Nor do I, but it certainly wasn't like Slobfather's America...

Yes, there was massive racial discrimination and women were second-class citizens, but there was also a heavily-graduated income tax, much more investment in the public good, and a predominantly-union workforce, things that would give Trumpians conniption fits. (Also, to be quite honest, someone like TFG would be a pariah in the eyes of most "decent ordinary folks.&quot I agree that they'd much prefer the 1850s, represented by the America of Uncle Tom's Cabin or the England of Charles Dickens.

[Mr.Bill]

4. I'm sure they would give up all the

modern canveniences just to have segregation back.

[Captain Zero]

35. Lake Erie was Dead Fish Soup

Enjoy.

[NCjack]

6. There hopes were dashed when their insurrection failed and

Congress was able to certify Biden's win.

Poor snowflakes.

[abqtommy]

7. Yahoo may like that word "Republicans" but I prefer to use "reTHUG Fascist

Treasonous Traitors", since that's exactly what they are.

[SCantiGOP]

8. During the 2016 primaries

I asked a Republican friend what he would do if Trump got the nomination, and was surprised when he said he would vote for him. During our ensuing argument, I asked him when he thought America had been great, and he said the 1950s.
I asked him if he thought he would say that if he were black, gay or very poor. He considered that for a moment, and then said, “Good point, but I would still vote Republican.”
Translation: I benefit too much from the white patriarchy to abandon it.

[Pinback]

9. I wouldn't have imagined so many Republicans were fans of

Thelonious Monk and Billie Holiday.

[Cartoonist]

10. Before the Beatles?

No thank you.

[skylucy]

14. Best comment!

[Boomerproud]

47. No way!

[spooky3]

11. Did they prefer living in small houses with no AC? Nt

[raccoon]

39. Thank you! Nt

[Wounded Bear]

12. They wouldn't like it. Porn was a LOT harder to get back then...

[Patterson]

30. They put a Sears catalog in your mailbox twice a year.

[Chille]

31. I used to love going

through their catalog especially at Christmas time.

[GoCubsGo]

46. It was a lot easier for them to shove their religion down everyone's throats, though.

As superficial as their practice of it was.

[dchill]

13. They might choose not to get the polio vaccine! Or MMR!

[Walleye]

16. Military draft, that was fun. Would they go themselves or send their sons

Age 18 and you were pulled out of your civilian life to shoot weapons of war. Freedumb

[bullwinkle428]

18. Jim Crow era. Nothing more to see here!

[no_hypocrisy]

20. I was born in 1957 and remember a lot despite being a toddler.

And I've read David Halberstam's The Fifties.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifties_(book)

That was one scary decade. Nothing nostalgic about it. McCarthy was bad enough by himself. People just acted weird.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

21. I was born the same year but don't remember the 50s

My earliest continuous memory was from about 1960 or 1961.

[no_hypocrisy]

23. I especially remember the TV shows that I watched from my playpen.

The commercials. What my town looked like. The inside of my father's car. My first movie was Gigi. My first sustained memory was Miami Beach when I was just 2. My first memory hands down was as an infant. When I was switched from breast milk to soy infant formula. (I know b/c when I tried soy milk for the first time, my first reaction was "Ugh! Baby formula!"

[electric_blue68]

36. Was born in '53 so...

I have some memories of the mid-late 50's but nothing much related to the big, wide world then.

By '60 - '61 I knew about Kennedy vs Nixon, the first Space flights, and way more even beyond the USA.

I also heard about (the echoes of) rhe McCarthy and HUAC.


I feel enternally blessed to have 💖 been born in NYC to Liberal parents!

[Texaswitchy]

54. Me either.

I do not remember Eisenhower.

Only President Kennedy

I remember starting school in 1959.

I remember going to Sears and my Father always buying me a bag of popcorn and 25 cents of M&M's.

I remember the school because I walked home by myself.

Little things like that.

[spooky3]

42. Do you remember the scary Kruschev commercials

Saying “we will bury you” and doing bomb drills at school?

[no_hypocrisy]

52. Remember the bomb drills. Teacher

refused to explain why we were in the halls. After all, we went outside for fire drills.

[Texaswitchy]

55. My older siblings told me they were dog tags in school.

They lived with the polio scare.

I was to young for that.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

22. My grandma

And my mom told me alot about the 1950's

And I never want to live like the 1950's.

Fuck thier nostalgia feelings.

[Journeyman]

24. Instead of looking forward through clear eyes . . .

In Search of Reagan's Brain (1980)

[spooky3]

43. Good one nt

[UTUSN]

25. Their 'America-great" is John WAYNE *movies* - not draft-dodger John WAYNE *reality*

[Anaico]

26. I'll take it. Trump wasn't alive in 1950

So he wouldn't be around.

[Rhiannon12866]

27. He was born in 1946, though the only damage he'd done at that point was bullying his brother.

Welcome to DU!

[LeftishBrit]

33. He was but he was only 4 years old, so could cause only limited damage

[spooky3]

44. Probably still pooping his pants then Nt

[Norbert]

50. Probably Fred was already planning to contract some smart kid to take an IQ test

for dim donny.

[PortTack]

28. So they want to live under a president that

Supports social security, unions, a high tax rate- not tax cuts, continued new deal programs ..nah!

[Mariana]

29. I'm all for going back to the income tax rates of the 1950's.

Adjusted for inflation, naturally.

[mnhtnbb]

32. The tax structure of the '50's is irrelevant

to most Republicans. What they crave is the social structure of the '50's where women stayed home, schools, neighborhoods, and the workplace were segregated, gays were in the closet, and white males were acknowledged as better than anyone else and treated accordingly because they made and enforced the rules.

Electing a Black man to the White House is what set them all off. They couldn't stand it. And they were gonna be damned if they'd allow a woman to follow up and be the next President.

[betsuni]

34. 1850s. MAGA are the same ones fooled by the Royal Nonesuch in "Huckleberry Finn" except

they'll never admit The Trump Show is the same as the Royal Nonesuch.

[Norbert]

37. Don't tell them Unions were thriving back in the 1950s

and Ike was good with that.

[leftyladyfrommo]

38. It was great for white middle class guys. Not so good for everyone

else.

[MOMFUDSKI]

40. My husband just talked with an 80ish

man who owns a restaurant here in Treasure Island, FL. He was waxing nostalgic about how the 50's and 60's were the best of times. He is a raving repub, of course. In a nutshell . . .

[Midnight Writer]

41. Now ask them if they would prefer life in Russia.

[MissMillie]

48. They'll change their minds when they are reminded

that top top marginal rate for Federal income tax was over 90%

[ananda]

49. We're already there in many ways.

Losing Civil Rights

Losing Choice

Losing Civil Liberties

Restoring Jim Crow

etc.

[MineralMan]

51. Probably most of those surveyed were either not alive during the 50s

or were children then. It's a stupid question to ask of people who did not experience life in that period.

I grew up in the 1950s. I graduated from high school in 1963. I'm now 76 years old. Anyone younger than me is unlikely to have much of a memory, if any, of that time period.

So, most of those surveyed are longing to return to a time they never experienced.

So, it's a worthless survey. Longing for the past is something people who don't remember the past do. The 50s sucked for so many people that they are impossible to count. I do remember.