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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I certainly didn't know any of this. I was thinking of post-Eisenhower developments that shifed 'conservative' approaches of the 50s and 60s to 'radical' approaches that weren't very conservative during the Reagan admin. Republicans before Eisenhower were a different kettle of fish.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sure, you could call that radicalism in a sense. Reagan was the complete opposite of a conservative with republican principals. He literally appointed dozens of Trotskyite communist neocons. Nonetheless, the radical republicans were known in the 19th century as a 5th column of bankers and corporate lawyers aligned with foreign powers to impsoe permanent public debt, which is what we have today. Credit being passed off as money.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Agreed