Wingnut concentration camps, 1969. All seems very familiar.

tHeY’rE gOinG tO pUt chRiStiAn pAtRioTs iN tHe gUlaG fOr dIsSeNtInG fRom tHeIr LiBeRaL aGeNdA (June 1969) pic.twitter.com/hqyMQeE20a

— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) August 26, 2021

In fact, a lot of favorite RW CTs are decades old. They just get dusted off and polished up for a new crop of marks every so often. The NRA’s most basic assumption, for example, is that gun control is a subterfuge for disarming people so they cannot resist the tyrannical government that liberals plan to set up. This dates to the 1960s and coincides with the backlash against the civil rights movement. When it first appeared, the NRA leadership of the time dismissed it as paranoid nonsense. This set off a power struggle within the organization that the nuts won in 1977. They have been in charge ever since.