David Corn Tells MSNBC GOP Has Embraced ‘Fascism’ for 70 Years: ‘No Golden Age of the Republican Party’

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CORN: “And I discovered no one had really looked at the history of the party through that lens. I went back and did it, I started really with McCarthyism, and came up with this — I think it’s the history of the dark side of the GOP, a look at seven decades of the GOP encouraging at exploiting extremism, tribalism, bigotry, paranoia conspiracy theory. That isn’t the totality of Republican Party, but it isn’t something that started with Trump. Trump is not an aberration, he’s a continuation or culmination. It’s always, always has been there, and it’s always been essential to the Republican Party’s strategy to win elections. So, the book came out this week, and, like all authors, you hope for a little luck, and part of the luck is that I think the conversation we're having now shows that this book is very timely and relevant because it gives us this historical context as we consider what MAGA extremism means within the Republican Party and we debate whether Biden is wrong or right when he talks about Trump leading the Republican Party in the direction of fascism or semi-fascism. You know, my point is that the Republican Party has been leaning in this direction for seven decades through basically every presidency and presidential campaign."

(Via Mediaite)