• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    That’s fairly close to what I’m saying, except it’s absolutely not just MAGA. It was Nixon and Reagan and Bush I and Gingrich and Bush II and Cheyney and Delay and Boehner and Romney and every Republican in leadership positions over the last 100 years.

    • Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      gingrich started the whole thing in the senate where they would refuse every bill til the dems capitulated, which mitch also caught on and started doing ti since.

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        8 hours ago

        Gingrich was in the house though.

        Wasn’t he the one who decided that no bill would come to a vote unless the majority of Republican representative supported it?

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      3 days ago

      I don’t disagree, I was just trying to quote what I heard as exactly as I remembered it.

      I would argue that there is a version of conservatism that is an ideology, but it hasn’t been the predominant form in the US for quite some time.