Heh. "From Goldwater to Reagan: The Rise of Conservatism in America, or, Why Did You Have to Make It Racist?"
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 12:56 (three years ago) link
Where's the Racist of Me?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 13:07 (three years ago) link
Who Moved My Racism?
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:30 (three years ago) link
Racist Soup for the Soul
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:36 (three years ago) link
Racist to the Bottom
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:39 (three years ago) link
Girl, Wash Your Racism
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
President Keyes delivers the lol.
― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Wednesday, 19 August 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
This piece from 2012 is just scarily on the mark for current era. And. as we look towards Romney's potential role during the Biden administration, a good reminder about Romney's past. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-long-con
― that's not my post, Saturday, 5 December 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Reading this now. I find these books to be oddly comforting. The parallels to whatever is going on now to, say, West Virginia in 1972 makes me think "this country has always been insane". This one, yes, but especially Nixonland. The 70s were fucking ~insane~.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 29 October 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
Most interesting insane decade ever.
Still holding out hope for a bringing-it-all-back-home final book.
― clemenza, Saturday, 29 October 2022 16:16 (one year ago) link
The 70s were fucking ~insane~.
Living through the 70s is what formed all the now-insane boomers.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Saturday, 29 October 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
I love when Perlstein points out the obvious about the audience for some right wing knuckle-dragging talking-point. Like here where Reagan had just recorded a long form talk-to-the-camera speech:
One reviewer -- Elizabeth Drew -- found it "rather poor. Reagan jumped from subject to subject, just as he had in his early speeches when he shuffled his 4x6 cards; he talked too fast about too many things [...]" But New Yorker writers did not have a vote in North Carolina Republican primaries.
In Nixonland, it was the opposite -- when some horn-rimmed-glasses-wearing bureaucrat would spout statistics that would lead to Perlstein would write something like "it all made so much sense" to liberals, only to have Nixon pull the rug on them again with some inanity.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Sunday, 30 October 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
Picking up The Invisible Bridge and Reaganland from my local library tomorrow. Just finishing Season 2 of Mindhunter, which mostly deals with the Atlanta child murders, so I guess late '70s/early '80s is where my brain is right now.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 30 October 2022 17:41 (one year ago) link
Picking up The Invisible Bridge and Reaganland from my local library tomorrow.
That is a lot of pages. Glad my copy of Invisible Bridge auto-renewed...twice.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Monday, 31 October 2022 00:28 (one year ago) link