Comments on: The America of the 2020s is not the America of the 1970s

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:52:02 +0000

Few will understand this.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:50:25 +0000

“Man named Rick Perlstein, yes, you heard that right, Rick Perlstein, claims the coup attempt of January 6th failed, social conservatives have been winning since the 1970′s, and Nixon didn’t have overwhelming popular support until well after he abandoned his post and fled.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SECVGN4Bsgg

By: longarch

longarch — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 04:46:42 +0000

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the parallels to the modern day are not exact, but eerie nonetheless. Watergate feels a lot like the coup attempt of January 6, 2021 — an event that horrified people, and kept them glued to their screens for weeks, but where all the action ultimately remained confined to the ranks of the elite.
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I could scarcely believe that anyone could write such drivel, and then I realized that Perlstein was the original perpetrator of this frippery. Isegoria, you are made to read better writers than Perlstein. Perlstein is no friend of the USA.

By: Altitude Zero

Altitude Zero — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 23:34:56 +0000

The problem with guys like Perlstein is that when it came to the great contest in the 1960′s and 1970′s between order and chaos, they were rooting for chaos, and they are still infuriated that Nixon opposed them, and that Reagan managed to pull the country back into some semblance of normality, despite never really being able to repair the damage. The Left hates their enemies with the intensity of a thousand suns, and they never forget. Also, as for Leftist energy burning itself out, if you count the current spasm as starting in about 2006, with the “Bush Lied!” hysteria, this most recent tantrum has lasted longer that the “Sixties” did (what we call “The Sixties” started in 1964, and ended in about 1978, give or take a year or so). In the late 1970′s, you could feel normality starting to re-assert itself. If anything like this is happening now, I can’t see it…

By: Faze

Faze — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 23:21:08 +0000

After the assassinations of the late 1960s, the Ford assassination attempts were a relief in that they didn’t succeed. Also, one of the assassins was nicknamed “Squeaky”, and the other was a middle-aged woman. Neither was possible to take seriously.

Those who did not live through the 1970s will have trouble believing how quickly chaos, craziness, and black crime became normalized. Every norm was overturned. I was a young man at the time and was not particularly distressed. I had no money and no stake in the current order. Society appeared to have fallen apart. My hope was that I might get a break in whatever replaced it.

By: Another Dave

Another Dave — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 19:58:56 +0000

So, Trump is a crook who tried to initiate a coup and was rebuffed by resilient institutions?

And how many people were glued to their screens for weeks because of the “coup” on January 6th?

I have a feeling only the author of this review and a few hundred other urban liberal pantywaists were caught up in the manufactured drama.

Urban liberals live in a different universe.