What happened to Republicans in 35 years?

[aikoaiko]

I'll look to see if I can find this video on youtube for people without Facebook account.

Its a republican nomination debate in 1979/80 with Bush and Reagan. They sound friendlier to undocumented immigrants than all Republicans and some Democrats.

https://www.facebook.com/NDLON/videos/10150328971564621/

[JI7]

1. a black man became president

Minority populations growong

[sorechasm]

2. Desperation for the Bigot vote.

GOP's last, remaining consistent voting block.

[gateley]

3. +1 nt

[KentuckyWoman]

6. This started before Obama

They shredded President WhistleAss when he dared to suggest we need a sane immigration policy instead of higher walls.

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. They went to The Dark Side.

[IDemo]

5. Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Moral Majority, the GW Bush fiasco,

a resurgence of bigotry and xenophobia with the election of Obama.

[longship]

7. That's easy. Jesus! nt

[apnu]

8. Reagan happened

In his inaguration speech he laid the groundwork for Republican anarchy. 'Government is the problem' They have been downhill ever since.

Today they have to out-anarchy each other to show their conservative credentials. Its a vicous circle they follow.

[davidn3600]

10. Reagan granted amnesty in 1986 and promised the government will never do it again

Reagan claimed they were going to fix the immigration system and secure the borders so there will never be an immigration problem in the future.

Well, apparently the system was never fixed. And so now conservatives don't trust the government to fix the problems. That's why they want the borders shut before they will agree to a path to citizenship.

[WiffenPoof]

12. Excellent...

They can't allow any other republican to be more extreme than they are.

[MohRokTah]

9. No Republican nominated for the presidency in the past 155 years could be nominated today. eom

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. The useful idiots sucked all the air out of the room

The birchers, the moral majority, the neo-confederates, the gun nuts, the Ayn Rand cosplayers. Sometime in the mid-90's they hit the tipping point and the useful idiots became the base between the older generation of affluent but relatively centrist Republicans dying off and younger centrists all over the English speaking world finding a home in the new left.