I want to thank donald Trump for helping me re-live my youth

[louis c]

13. Yes, but not quite as nutty or numerous

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There was the "silent majority' who hated the demonstrators. the former George Wallace supporters who were once 'bigoted Democrats" switched over, slowly after 1965 civil rights laws, to be the 'bigoted Republicans". Nixon referred to this during his 1972 re-election as the "Southern Strategy". Those bigots first moved from "Democrats" to Wallace's third party in 1968, and then to Republican Richard Nixon in 1972. They slowly moved to the Republican Party, where they all reside today.

Those people were more staunchly loyal to Nixon, but the establishment Republicans, Percy, Brooke, Goldwater, Jacob Javitz types deserted Nixon when the evidence became overwhelming. When Nixon left office, his approval rating was in the mid 20's. Once the tapes came out, and you could hear the crimes being committed in Nixon's own voice, he became impossible to defend.

This was when a time that "elites" were people with a lot of money and power. Today, elites are people with knowledge. I've been called an elitist because I can recite facts. I have no great wealth or power. By putting that moniker on people with knowledge, the other side has made ignorance a virtue. That wasn't the case in 1974.