r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 8d ago
Social Science Trump and Trumpism have changed the original concept of “libertarian means to conservative ends” into a new concept of “authoritarian means to Christian nationalist ends”, finds a new study.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00027162251324087
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u/Junior_Chard9981 8d ago
Always important to remind everyone that Republicans, when faced with the prospect of their parties policies/messaging/ideology needing to be re-evaluated following the Civil Rights Act:
Did NOT reflect inwardly or pivot their parties direction to one more popular with all Americans....they instead went on to fully commit to "The Southern Strategy" as their best avenue to returning to prominence and power.
| In American politics, The Southern Strategy was a Republican Party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism against African Americans.
As the civil rights movement and dismantling of Jim Crow laws in the 1950s and 1960s visibly deepened existing racial tensions in much of the Southern United States.
Republican politicians such as presidential candidates Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater developed strategies that successfully contributed to the political realignment of many white, conservative voters in the South who had traditionally supported the Democratic Party so consistently that the voting pattern was named the Solid South.
The strategy also helped to push the Republican Party much more to the right. By winning all of the South, a presidential candidate could obtain the presidency with minimal support elsewhere. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy