That tweet just sounds like cope trying to say the Democrats policies even from 30 years ago is why Republicans won not that the current Democrat policies is WHY they lost so bad.
To be honest, if Republicans want to keep winning after Trump leaves in 2028, what they need is a slight reformation. First sign of good will is not blocking all the cuts that DOGE makes. Second is embrace and showcase Christian values but NOT go evangelical about it as that's what lost you cultural control from the 90s onwards.
If just at the baseline Trump gets his appointments and makes at least 70% of the changes he's promised, Republicans are in a good spot to win 2028 so long as they don't pick a neocon puppet as the presidential nominee.
I'd say that was one factor but a bigger factor was the narrative control the media had in demonising Christianity.
Throughout the 90s and especially the 2000s, I bet we all remember how often we'd hear shit like 'Christian backlash over pokemon, Harry Potter, Mass Effect etc' while with the extreme end they'd only showcase WHITE Christians doing shit like protesting soldiers funerals or those televised scam artist ones, giving them a larger platform.
It was a slow knife designed to invade the public consciousness so that slowly people would no longer align themselves with Christianity in the West. And that's an issue when Christianity is the foundations for the majority of moral values in Western society.
The Christian school I attended forbade Harry Potter due to it glorifying witchcraft, and I had friends whose parents forbade them from watching Simpsons, Family Guy, etc... due to its vulgarity.
Whether this was a majority view or not I can't say, but the Church wasn't exactly making it hard to sell that narrative. They had a similar problem with humorless scolds as the left has today. And what they offered as an alternative to mainstream culture (eg. the Left Behind series which was a big thing around that time) was often heavy-handed and just not very good.
80s/90s kid. I 'member when Bart saying "sucks" was shocking.
My best friend had to play D&D in secret because his mother and grandmother thought it was Satanic.
My sister's Christian school banned Harry Potter for witchcraft.
Before 2019-20, I had never seen pronouns listed in email signature lines. Before 2015 gay marriage was only allowed in certain places, and only for a few years. Until 2011, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was official policy in the military. In both my southern and midwestern families' hometowns, most stores and restaurants were closed on Sundays and all had reduced hours.
This has to be amongst the fastest societal change in history.
The thing is, 90s Democrats were focused on "the little guy" regardless of their ethnicity, gender, or sexuality. It was just middle and lower class workers. At some point, however, the Democrats decided that "the little guy" actually meant "whoever is the lowest rung on the idpol ladder" and ran with that definition.
That 'some point' is pretty explicitly Occupy Wall Street. Overnight and on an ever growing slope since then until maybe this very year, every legacy media giant became obsessed with racism, women's petty problems, and eventually pushing tranny shit as the primary ill in the world we needed to get more and more laser focused and intolerant about. 'Forget the whole class solidary thing please' they told the NPCs.
The already class focused socialist left of the time and a right angry about government-financial services circlejerk making idiotic decisions hitting normal people's pocketbooks coming together was an existential threat to the ruling class. Upending what parties even represent and stalling the plan on one world governance for 20 or 30 years over this shit was an acceptable alternative to the plebs gathering united on the streets below the ivory towers of our actual oligarchic rulers.
I haven't forgotten how in 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle was mocked by Democrats when he criticized the TV Show Murphy Brown for showing a single woman having a kid out of wedlock.
Looking back, it seems almost quaint that a politician would do something like that, but he did, and he was right.
I think you all are actually misunderstanding what the 90's really was.
The twin prolapsed asshole defeats of Nixon being elected and Reagan being elected by the greatest electoral wins in American history is what forced the Democrats to appear more right-wing.
JFK introduced liberalization to a Democratic Socialist USA. He paid for that with a bullet, or at least RFK did.
The populist right & the populist left rivaled for power in 1964, and both lost to the DemSoc establishment, that still had to push progressive politics to keep power in the future.
It didn't last long because the Populist Right started working with the Establishment Right to allow the take-over of Richard Nixon. Progressive policies were rebuked badly by his election, to the point that the Left still don't want to admit that Nixon was elected in spite of them. Then he was re-elected in spite of him; so they had to kill his career with Watergate. The whole time, the Populist Left morphed into the Revolutionary Left and caused the largest level of domestic violence since the Civil War.
Then power was shifted back to the Establishment with Gerald Ford, and again, leaned in on Progressive policies to protect establishment power with a Left that was fully engaged in the Days Of Rage terror campaign on the US. The Progressive and Socialist policies were being still rebuffed by a resentful American public that would elect Ronald Reagan in an enormous win that shocked the Progressives and Establishment. The establishment decided that constantly allowing the revolutionary left to kill, bomb, burn, and rape with impunity was not worth it as they kept getting blown out at the ballot box. Worse, Mondale showed that Progressive politics really were an anathema to the general population. So they turned against the Revolutionary Communists, and they subverted the Reagan Revolution.
The Election in 1992 is a moment when the Clintons make their move to seize the Democratic Party, and distance themselves from the Revolutionary Left that seem to cause sweeping Republican super-majorities every few years. This is actually where the elites "Put The Woke Away". Slick willy new how to play his part as a moderate and CIA Director Bush kept the Republican Party from moving further right as they rebuked Ross Perot.
What you see in the picture above are the "Useful Idiots" that didn't understand the long game of re-establishing Roosevelt style Socialism into the US. They believed the propaganda that abortion was supposed to be "Safe, Legal, and Rare" and that "Healthcare was a human right", and that there were Family Values Democrats, and that Democrats could win on Economic issues because Socialism just doesn't exist in America.
That's a lot of people on the modern right, whether you like it or not. The Left momentarily stopped fire-bombing the homes of judges long enough to allow the media to pretend that the Civil Rights movement was never violent, and the Days of Rage didn't happen, and all of the pro-socialist messaging that you heard in the 60's and 70's was all just in your mind. Pictured above are the people who believed them.
The 90's Democrats were people who pretended to be center-right, while in reality they were pushing for Socialism the whole time. These are the people who believed in those center-right positions; so when the former violent revolutionaries of the 1970's started pushing hordes of radicals out of American Universities, the Left simply went back to it's old ways.
That tweet just sounds like cope trying to say the Democrats policies even from 30 years ago is why Republicans won not that the current Democrat policies is WHY they lost so bad.
To be honest, if Republicans want to keep winning after Trump leaves in 2028, what they need is a slight reformation. First sign of good will is not blocking all the cuts that DOGE makes. Second is embrace and showcase Christian values but NOT go evangelical about it as that's what lost you cultural control from the 90s onwards.
If just at the baseline Trump gets his appointments and makes at least 70% of the changes he's promised, Republicans are in a good spot to win 2028 so long as they don't pick a neocon puppet as the presidential nominee.
What lost cultural control is the 80s amnesty. Which itself was a backflow from the immigration "reform" of the sixties.
I'd say that was one factor but a bigger factor was the narrative control the media had in demonising Christianity.
Throughout the 90s and especially the 2000s, I bet we all remember how often we'd hear shit like 'Christian backlash over pokemon, Harry Potter, Mass Effect etc' while with the extreme end they'd only showcase WHITE Christians doing shit like protesting soldiers funerals or those televised scam artist ones, giving them a larger platform.
It was a slow knife designed to invade the public consciousness so that slowly people would no longer align themselves with Christianity in the West. And that's an issue when Christianity is the foundations for the majority of moral values in Western society.
The Christian school I attended forbade Harry Potter due to it glorifying witchcraft, and I had friends whose parents forbade them from watching Simpsons, Family Guy, etc... due to its vulgarity.
Whether this was a majority view or not I can't say, but the Church wasn't exactly making it hard to sell that narrative. They had a similar problem with humorless scolds as the left has today. And what they offered as an alternative to mainstream culture (eg. the Left Behind series which was a big thing around that time) was often heavy-handed and just not very good.
80s/90s kid. I 'member when Bart saying "sucks" was shocking.
My best friend had to play D&D in secret because his mother and grandmother thought it was Satanic.
My sister's Christian school banned Harry Potter for witchcraft.
Before 2019-20, I had never seen pronouns listed in email signature lines. Before 2015 gay marriage was only allowed in certain places, and only for a few years. Until 2011, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" was official policy in the military. In both my southern and midwestern families' hometowns, most stores and restaurants were closed on Sundays and all had reduced hours.
This has to be amongst the fastest societal change in history.
After doing it to the Christians (even funding Christian terrorist groups in Lebanon), they now do it with the Muslims.
What? I've never heard of Christian terrorist groups in Lebanon.
I dont think so, alot of these accounts are Elon fanboys.
The thing is, 90s Democrats were focused on "the little guy" regardless of their ethnicity, gender, or sexuality. It was just middle and lower class workers. At some point, however, the Democrats decided that "the little guy" actually meant "whoever is the lowest rung on the idpol ladder" and ran with that definition.
That 'some point' is pretty explicitly Occupy Wall Street. Overnight and on an ever growing slope since then until maybe this very year, every legacy media giant became obsessed with racism, women's petty problems, and eventually pushing tranny shit as the primary ill in the world we needed to get more and more laser focused and intolerant about. 'Forget the whole class solidary thing please' they told the NPCs.
The already class focused socialist left of the time and a right angry about government-financial services circlejerk making idiotic decisions hitting normal people's pocketbooks coming together was an existential threat to the ruling class. Upending what parties even represent and stalling the plan on one world governance for 20 or 30 years over this shit was an acceptable alternative to the plebs gathering united on the streets below the ivory towers of our actual oligarchic rulers.
I haven't forgotten how in 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle was mocked by Democrats when he criticized the TV Show Murphy Brown for showing a single woman having a kid out of wedlock.
Looking back, it seems almost quaint that a politician would do something like that, but he did, and he was right.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/twenty-years-later-it-turns-out-dan-quayle-was-right-about-murphy-brown-and-unmarried-moms/
Trump is a 90s dem. So... Yeah. Good job. It's amazing how few people realize this until they're beat in the face with it.
The Long March through the Institutions has finally reached its end. Now there will never be opposition to the leftward ratchet.
I'm not sure what that tweet was or if the link is even good. I'm in some sort of empty bookmark place when I click on it.
Here is a better link: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858338787027271726
I think you all are actually misunderstanding what the 90's really was.
The twin prolapsed asshole defeats of Nixon being elected and Reagan being elected by the greatest electoral wins in American history is what forced the Democrats to appear more right-wing.
JFK introduced liberalization to a Democratic Socialist USA. He paid for that with a bullet, or at least RFK did.
The populist right & the populist left rivaled for power in 1964, and both lost to the DemSoc establishment, that still had to push progressive politics to keep power in the future.
It didn't last long because the Populist Right started working with the Establishment Right to allow the take-over of Richard Nixon. Progressive policies were rebuked badly by his election, to the point that the Left still don't want to admit that Nixon was elected in spite of them. Then he was re-elected in spite of him; so they had to kill his career with Watergate. The whole time, the Populist Left morphed into the Revolutionary Left and caused the largest level of domestic violence since the Civil War.
Then power was shifted back to the Establishment with Gerald Ford, and again, leaned in on Progressive policies to protect establishment power with a Left that was fully engaged in the Days Of Rage terror campaign on the US. The Progressive and Socialist policies were being still rebuffed by a resentful American public that would elect Ronald Reagan in an enormous win that shocked the Progressives and Establishment. The establishment decided that constantly allowing the revolutionary left to kill, bomb, burn, and rape with impunity was not worth it as they kept getting blown out at the ballot box. Worse, Mondale showed that Progressive politics really were an anathema to the general population. So they turned against the Revolutionary Communists, and they subverted the Reagan Revolution.
The Election in 1992 is a moment when the Clintons make their move to seize the Democratic Party, and distance themselves from the Revolutionary Left that seem to cause sweeping Republican super-majorities every few years. This is actually where the elites "Put The Woke Away". Slick willy new how to play his part as a moderate and CIA Director Bush kept the Republican Party from moving further right as they rebuked Ross Perot.
What you see in the picture above are the "Useful Idiots" that didn't understand the long game of re-establishing Roosevelt style Socialism into the US. They believed the propaganda that abortion was supposed to be "Safe, Legal, and Rare" and that "Healthcare was a human right", and that there were Family Values Democrats, and that Democrats could win on Economic issues because Socialism just doesn't exist in America.
That's a lot of people on the modern right, whether you like it or not. The Left momentarily stopped fire-bombing the homes of judges long enough to allow the media to pretend that the Civil Rights movement was never violent, and the Days of Rage didn't happen, and all of the pro-socialist messaging that you heard in the 60's and 70's was all just in your mind. Pictured above are the people who believed them.
The 90's Democrats were people who pretended to be center-right, while in reality they were pushing for Socialism the whole time. These are the people who believed in those center-right positions; so when the former violent revolutionaries of the 1970's started pushing hordes of radicals out of American Universities, the Left simply went back to it's old ways.
Proper link: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1858338787027271726
the socialist neocons did it earlier than the 90s