The American Right and Anti-Intellectualism

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Kasz216 said:

Runa216 said:
this thread interests me because before Bush, the right and the left were not at each others's throats like this. Republicans weren't seen as ignorant or stupid, Religion was just kinda THERE rather than being the forefront of a campaign, and....

Fuck bush. he ruined the right.

The republican party really isn't any different that it's been since Reagan though.

And Reagan was just as "stupid" in his time as Bush was in his. Just like William F. Buckley went from being a racist WASP who wanted to punch out queers to a faultlessly civil intellectual. Once he's dead, Bush will be revered as nice and kind and thoroughly sensible, and whoever happens to be the foremost Republican of the day will be a stupid hick who makes Bush roll over in his grave.