r/politics • u/NicolasCageFan492 Illinois • 23d ago

No Paywall Karl Rove says Republican Party is being taken over by 'Nazis'

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/politics-and-elections/karl-rove-says-republican-party-is-being-taken-over-by-nazis/
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u/Euclidisthebomb 23d ago

I always thought Karl Rove was a Nazi so I am perplexed.

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u/gringledoom 23d ago

There was an element of the GOP that was "wind up the rubes just enough that they vote for us and we can push our otherwise-disfavored policy objectives", and an element of the GOP that was "bronze-age-mentality rubes". Rove is among the former (which isn't to say he's a good guy); they're willing to leverage dangerous social impulses to win, even if they don't personally "care" either way.

tl;dr: sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

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u/NeverLookBothWays I voted 23d ago

True, it used to be Barry Goldwater style conservatism which became widely unpopular by the late 1960’s. And from there we had Nixon who had to cave to progressive ideas, leading to strategist Jude Wanniski going “screw it, let’s just manipulate our voters each cycle instead” starting with Reagan. And eventually the nazified remnants of the confederacy played along and eventually took over.

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u/UNC_Samurai 23d ago

Goldwater radicalized the party, conveniently ignoring that the evangelists he invited in would see a path to power through Reagan.

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u/LordSiravant 23d ago

I mean, fuck Goldwater, but wasn't he known for commenting just how dangerous the evangelical takeover of the Republican Party was?

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u/UNC_Samurai 23d ago

He knew damn well he opened the door for them.

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u/movezig123 22d ago

Well put

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u/Churchbushonk 23d ago

He was Nazi-like. But not a Nazi. Nazi in actions, but not goals.

Trump MAGA embody eugenics, racist, cool with genocide, paint Hispanics as the ENEMY. Type of Nazi.

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u/Bears_On_Stilts 23d ago

This isn't a new theory either: all the way back in the early 2000s, Green Day was singing "Holiday" about how the rightward shift of US culture was not unlike the Holocaust.

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u/tearsonurcheek Oklahoma 22d ago

<postpunk enters the chat from the 80s>

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u/DGanj 23d ago

"You're not a Nazi, Karl, you're just an asshole."

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u/howarewestillhere America 23d ago

Well, he would certainly be able to recognize his own.

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u/The_Starving_Autist 23d ago

Well he didn't say he disapproves

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u/Jaredlong 23d ago

Headline doesn't say he's disappointed by this.

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u/PinkSlimeIsPeople Minnesota 22d ago

Yeah, KKKarl Rove is honestly one of the chief architects that unleashed these rabid attack dogs. He can't now pretend like he's surprised the fascists have taken over.

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u/MikeS00000 22d ago

Maybe he is dying and figures he needs to cover all his bases.

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u/papparmane 23d ago

Je was the good nazi type. He’s talking about the bad nazi type, which he is not a member of.
Pay attention.

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u/mycall 23d ago

It is just the usual projection.

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u/atred 23d ago

He's Nazi Lite, he doesn't like Whole Nazi.

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u/Memory_Less Canada 22d ago

Maybe he meant it as a positive outcome. /s

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u/Up_Over_and_Gone 22d ago

I always thought he was a ham loaf with glasses.

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u/SpaceLemming 22d ago

He’s always been a Nazi, he’s just angry that they didn’t it wrong and now it’s blowing up the country

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u/BleedSparta 20d ago

When a Nazy meets the SuperNazys

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u/elriggo44 19d ago

He’s just one of the early steps. He’s an authoritarian and probably a fascists. But not quite a fill throated Nazi.
Tucker, on the other hand? That dude is seeming more and more like a full on Nazi.