blaming nixon on the war protesters instead of the party maintaining a deeply unpopular pro-war stance

Dems coming full circle and supporting the Vietnam war

"If y'all don't like the ruling class oppressing you so much, then just let them oppressing you!"

Wow, brilliant take. Sounds like they should have kept protesting after Vietnam. Sounds like maybe we stopped too soon.

great takes in that thread:

This actually isn’t right. The main thing that pushed the country to the right and led to Nixon was the race riots of the 60s. Read Omar wasows research.

oh really, the race riots, eh? why were there race riots?

White person y'alling POC protesters on why what they get from the ruling class is what they deserve

Carter literally fumbled the youth vote with deeply unpopular policies that could have easily avoided, instead he got btfo by a senile actor who killed a student in protests against bombing children

Here's a good essay that responds to this particular brand of ghoulery.

So here is my question for Joe Biden, the one man who has been anointed to save America from the terrifying notion of another Trump administration: Why have you decided to force American voters who do not want a fascist president to step over the bodies of thousands of dead civilians in order to vote for you? Why? What are you thinking? The Biden administration itself is subjecting all of us to this blood-soaked political kabuki, in which we are all supposed to grin tightly and talk about the CHIPS Act and investment in green energy and studiously ignore the thousands of dead children strewn all around us. It is as if the night before a big game, the New York Yankees went out and shot up an elementary school, and then turned to their fans and shrugged, “What are you gonna do—cheer for the Red Sox?”

"We need to give republicans everything they want, or else they'll have the pleasure of just taking it!"

How's tailism working out for Biden, btw? He LET abortion bans and trans criminalization happen across the country because "muh bipartisanship" but normies STILL think he's too far left.

Just weapons grade libbin. Not to mention : Y'all. Anyways I tried to look at what else this genius person said. Here's another masterpiece.

I love that this person is handwringing at people protesting while all the liberal cadre wouldn't bat an eye at operation phoenix.

If doing the right thing (fighting for the liberation of Palestine) makes you unpopular with American voters, then America deserves whatever hell is wrought upon it in the aftermath.

These libs are such fucking losers I stg. Absolutely no awareness of history or anything outside of their small bubble

It’s an objectively true statement but not for the reasons she thinks. American imperialists of the Cold War era de-radicalized anti-war advocates, union members, and other progressives by ending the draft and offering a still-viable path to the so-called middle class.

no protest only

LBJ said "We’ve lost the south for a generation" when he signed the Civil Rights act in June 1964. It was proposed by Kennedy, and LBJ pushed it through congress after the assassination. His election was a few months later. Compare the electoral maps:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election

The US entered the Vietnam war around that time period too but do you think of the Jim Crow south as being extremely anti-war?

Even if that were the case, I unironically would rather die, get everyone else killed, and plunge the world into a century of deepest reaction than pander to gormless fucks I have nothing but contempt for

She's why KKKracker changed its spelling over the years.

Nixon to... Reagan!

If Biden and US-backed Israel's genocide is like the Vietnam War and continues for more than four years - everybody in Gaza is already dead.

A couple days ago if somebody had mentioned "Nixon to Reagan" as a joke - I would have thought it was an excellent bit. But I guess it's the developing lib line and I am aghast. Yesterday night when I was watching MSNBC - I thought to myself "Are you fucking kidding?" when a panel with serious tones in their voices mentioned it too.

This is Jimmy erasure.

"until 1990's" are you sure? it really looks like republicans are still dominating politics. we have a president that makes reagan look like a leftist and he is lib president.

damn it's almost like capital conspired to set back progress in reaction to the protests.

We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.