Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "GOP's Race to Authoritarianism (w/ Rick Perlstein) | Bulwark Podcast" video.

I'm waiting for them to propose privatizing weights & measures.
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The turning point to Trump was McCain's choice of fruit-fringer Sarah Palin as VP. But the fascism and white supremacist racism go back to at latest 1950's William F. Buckley.
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Perlstein is an ideologue claiming to be an historian. They are not the same thing.
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Reagan initiated the anti-gov't sedition, and began the attack on "Liberals". The Founders were Liberals -- which is why we have the First Amendment, which includes separation of "religion" and gov't.
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@MyRosie2007 "Trickle Down" has never worked. You give money to the wealthy and they put in in their pockets. It should honestly be called trickle-up: Bannon ripped of Trump supporters with his "Build the Wall" fraud, for doing which he was indicted by a Federal grand jury. Trump sealed the deal by pardoning Bannon.
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@georgefordham417 Reagan initiated the anti-gov't sedition. But per the Constitution, "We the people" are the gov't. So the "enemy" in his elevated view is "We the people" -- the majority of citizens.
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"Game of Thrones" is fiction. When will the younger generations CEASE viewing politics as sports and entertainment? "Conventional wisdom" is a self-negating oxymoron. Wisdom is by nature and definition _UN_conventional.
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And Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin -- the far-Left -- got Nixon elected. And far-Left Sanders helped elect Trump.
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When Romney ran for Massachusetts governor he promised that if elected he wouldn't use the office as platform to launch campaign for president. And he was pro-choice. Halfway through his term as governor he launched his presidential campaign -- as anti-choice. The current Steward Health Care private-equity fraud is traced by "Business Insider" to Romney's "Bain Capital".
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