@AEBowenPhD @AHAhistorians Cute guys were bookish in the 70s (Redford, Newman, Dustin etc); ‘Reagan Revolution’ ended that, merged finance & academia, convinced some working women to not be feminists; skipping steps here but result = cute guys became douches, cute women retrograde
@Blakester422 @ScottAdamsSays Those who have bothered to listen to speeches and read the tweets of Trump have note that he stops just short of saying ‘get guns, kill lefties.’ But the cumulative effect is the same as if he had been just slightly more overt in each moment.
@mmbrenn@TerryBoutonHist Lunacy baked in. We were founded by white supremacists; many now are obsessed by founders, as if they were biblical figures - includes some ‘originalist’ Supreme Court justices. Also: after civil war, south was never punished, black lives mattered even less.