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Seth Meyers Is Back: Trump's Racist Attacks on Democratic Congresswomen [VIDEO]

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷7/16/2019 8:44:55 am PDT

re: #184 HappyWarrior

You stopped being the party of Lincoln the minute you nominated Goldwater after LBJ signed the CRA 1964. It’s been downhill ever since.

The Man Who Launched the GOP’s Civil War (Politico, 2015)

The story of Roger Millikan, textile magnate, who in the Fifties planted the first ideas about trade protectionism and anti-unionism in the South.

By weaponising the racism inherent in post-Brown Dixie, he was the person who first promoted Goldwater to the Republican Party in a way to take the Solid South.

All the way back to the Fifties, South Carolina had passed a so-called right to work law, and so he moved his textile factory to Darlington to take advantage of cheap labour.

He was an early financier of the National Review and the Heritage Foundation.

What got him in the end was his cheap labour policies were then used by the same corporations which supported him to start exporting their labour to foreign markets and flood the USA and ignoring him.

By the time he realised what he had done, his textile business was put out of business. While today the company still collects billions in patents, it no longer produces anything.