The center-right Republican majority in presidential politics and eventually in congressional elections began when in the 1968-72 time frame the Democrats split over Vietnam and sent their hawks, now derided as "neo-cons," over to the Republicans. From 1968-2008, forty years, the Dems occupied the White House for twelve years and the pubbies for 28. And they only got eight of those years because Ross Perot split the vote and put a Dem in as a minority president.
They paid a heavy price for expelling those folks.
They paid a heavy price for expelling those folks. No question about it....
The amazing thing to me, is that we are fully armed with the knowledge of this political history, yet so many fail to accept it and are repeating the very same sort of political error.
Those who do not learn from history are indeed doomed to repeat it.
And repeat it, they will.