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Watergate is as far as you can draw a direct line. That's when Roger Ailes really started working on right-wing television. That got us Fox News, and here we are today.
I'd say Nixon administration as a whole. They picked up the dixiecrats post Civil Rights movement. Look up Nixon's political Strategist Kevin Phillips and his discussion on the Southern Strategy where it was specifically targeting the racist whites to bring them into the Republican party.
But then that's the part where I can say goes all the way back to slavery, but hey, if you grew up in the South the Civil War was never quite over even to modern era. But I'd definitely say the Southern Strategy the Republicans put into place would be where I'd say the beginning of drawing a direct line to where we're at now.
This right here. Reconstruction was a failure, a lot of traitors should've been tried, not allowed to go home with dignity and honor. Lands should've been confiscated and given to the newly freed peoples, 40 acres and a mule should've been the law. The racism never went away it just learned to hide behind code words and shared looks.
Ah yes, the Lee Atwater strategy to bring in the Reagan administration. It's not blacks they're against, just "Welfare queens."
With all historicism, how direct a line you can draw depends on how zoomed out you are. There are larger trends and forces at play that began with the Black Plague or further, from a certain altitude.
But your point is well made, there are very concrete elements in motion that began with Watergate.