Still Not Over It. Ctd.

When a Conservative redneck complains that "We lost 'The War'" no one needs to ask which "war" they are talking about.

These are the people on whom Richard Nixon rebuilt the Party of Lincoln.

These are the people at whom Ronald Reagan's every racist, anti-government, anti-Liberal dog-whistle was carefully directed.

This is the monster in the Conservative basement that Liberals have been sounding the alarm about for the last four decades.

This is the monster in the Conservative basement that America's leading Conservative public intellectuals have spent virtually their entire professional lives pretending did not exist.

The entire focus of the modern American Conservative Movement has been to give goon like these enough political power to completely fuck up my country.

The last time these goons were given a free hand to fuck up my country, it took over two million Union soldiers and four years of bloody civil war to convince them it was a bad idea.

Maybe someone could ask leading America's Conservative intellectuals like Andrew Sullivan, David Frum and David Brooks to quantify the level of effort it took to hold themselves, year after year,  willfully ignorant of fact that these goons are the bedrock on which their Movement was built.

(Many thanks to @RockDots for hipping me to this clip!)