Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Tucker: This is who Mitch McConnell truly is" video.
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My home state as well. Mitch fell in with the Neoconservatives of the New York Intellectuals, who are all Trotskyites. New York has been the bane of the US since the Declaration was signed, and it is the home of Federalism and Socialism in the US. Both Federalism and Socialism walk hand in hand, especially after the late nineteenth century.
Its roots lie with Henry Clay's Whig Party, who were the old Federalists, and a few other left-wing groups, that came back after losing the Federalist Party. They've always supported a big brother government from the days of Hamilton. Greeley ran for president under the Whigs, and his NYC newspaper was famous for printing Marx's screeds. Lincoln was a pen pal of Marx as well, as the Whig Party became the GOP. This is what Rep. Randolph of Roanoke, the leader of the "Old Republicans," warned about. The Civil War was used to stomp out Old Republican thought and bring in Federalism, as well as the first ideas of Socialism, though many within the party, who still held Old Republican beliefs, tried to fight it. From that time, the Roosevelt family were big supporters, and by 1901, Teddy brought us Progressivism, which Wilson also followed, and with them came Socialism.
Old Republican thought was mainly with the Democratic Party at the start of the Civil War, but the north sent in the Carpetbaggers to change that during reconstruction. They used thuggery and coercion to do it. They "Federalized" every state.
It was being pushed by a few Protestant denominations as well, especially the Episcopalians, who had ties to the UK, and they were known as "Christian Socialists." Thus, it was within the elite Anglo-American Establishment. The main movement started in the 1890s in Boston (Church of the Carpenter and a few others) and moved to New York. There, they founded the Rand School of Social Science, where Trotsky was lecturing before he left to join Lenin, and it was also within Columbia U, where it was taught.
By the 1930s, this same lot took in the Frankfurt School professors, and it was led by Dewey. This was the same Dewey that had traveled to Mexico to "prove Trotsky's innocence." The same Trotsky that was a communist. The grads became known as the New York Intellectuals, and they came into the GOP with the Rockefeller Republicans and Nixon to form the Neocons.
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