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A Badger

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7. The late-seventies especially, but also the early-eighties

Reply to Blue_Adept (Original post)

Sat Oct 25, 2025, 02:25 PM

Yesterday

...had such muckraking journals as In These Times, Mother Jones, The Progressive, and Nation with which to stay informed. The '76 Ford/Dole ticket- and the intra-Party battle at the Republican Convention which produced it,- to a large degree spelled the beginning of the end of the moderate and liberal wings of that Party. Those news sources kept us abreast of what Reagan was about to unleash upon us.

Scaife was almost a 'bit player' back then, compared to the likes of Paul Weyrich, Joseph Coors, Richard Viguerie, Phyllis Schlafly, Robert Welch, Jesse Helms, Edgar Uihlein...
Their ghost still live.

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