I'd estimate at least twice that long, but you did specify "at least", so you're not wrong.
Yeah, I’m hearkening back to that time when Pat Buchanan was running on the GOP ticket in 1996 - there was still a perceivable difference between the parties, though faint. It was the Bush Family that utterly destroyed the GOP beyond any hope of repair.
Oh.
Well that sounds demonstrably valid.
I was thinking of Reagan's apparent founding of neocon bullshittery, while doing enough good to keep his audiences reasonably pleased.
I just wish I’d known about William Luther Pierce at the time, but I’d never heard of him.
That’s legit - Reagan in the top spot certainly let them down the rosy path to the Uniparty, but in those days American Evangelicals had significant influence in the actual direction of the GOP which - despite being irritatingly shallow and unintelligent, was markedly different from the Democrats.
There was also an assumed nationalism, with an ethnic undercurrent by virtue of sheer numbers. But they all gradually died out and were replaced with zionist neocons - thanks largely to that aforementioned Evangelical influence.
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