How Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh gave rise to the dangerous movement we now know as MAGA
Following the end of the Cold War, the Republican Party reinvented itself in the 1990s in a manner which resulted in the dominance of MAGA Republicans today according to a new analysis.
Gabriel Debenedetti explored the dynamic in a New York Times review of the book Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s by Nicole Hemmer.
"American political history is not always terribly complicated, but even its simplest lessons can be little match for our collective amnesia. How surprised should we be, really, to learn that “America First,” one of Donald Trump’s favored campaign slogans, was used by a pair of also-ran presidential candidates in 1992 — the hard-core right-wing commentator Pat Buchanan and the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke? 'How, exactly, did we get here?' is an urgent question. But if the inquiry is one of the defining nonfiction genres of the last half-decade, some of its more common iterations now risk feeling stale," Debenedetti wrote.
Buchanan worked for GOP Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan before mounting a primary campaign against incumbent President George H.W. Bush in 1992. Buchanan ended up endorsing Bush and at the 1992 convention said, "There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America. It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the Cold War itself. And in that struggle for the soul of America, Clinton & Clinton are on the other side, and George Bush is on our side. And so, we have to come home, and stand beside him."
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