“Nelson Rockefeller, the 1968 Election & the Disappearance of Republican Moderates”

[@TURTLELE]

why am I watching this high

[@LucasNauan]

me too bro, the places weed takes me I swear at least most times is something educational, is still random as hell

[@TheJMascis666]

It was a weird old primary in New Hampshire with Romney and Rockefeller both pulling out basically handing Nixon it on a plate.

[@powerfulstrong5673]

The 1980 Presidential Election of Ronald Reagan had turned GOP into a party of modern American movement conservativism.

[@homounculus5769]

Always struck me as a little too convenient. Rockefeller's social class benefited enormously from the shift rightward.

[@NC7491]

Unfortunately, some parts of this lecture did not age well. :(

[@chrismoderate3495]

Moderate Republicans. If only now.

[@powerfulstrong5673]

The 1980 Presidential Election of Ronald Reagan had turned GOP into a party of modern American movement conservativism.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

They still exist

[@chrismoderate3495]

@@raptorfromthe6ix833 Who? Compared to Rockefeller, every main Republican nowadays is to the right.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@@chrismoderate3495 susan collins,lisa muraowski, bunch of northeast republcians mitt romney when he was the governor

[@anthonyymm511]

@@raptorfromthe6ix833 They are thoroughly hated by their party.

[@metatron4890]

Funny speech in hindsight.

[@blackfreud9048]

The GOP thought Rocky was a problem back then. Wait’ll they get a load of Trump!

[@tammyleederwhitaker649]

1968 SIGNS

[@cpklapper]

I am opposed to democracy, especially the mercantile democracies which have dominated corporate government under Conservative policies. Conservatives have no place in a Republican party. The problem with the electoral organizations which claim to be “Republican” has been and is that they are controlled by the Conservative Democracy, being completely unresponsive to the Republican ideology of selfless service to a stewardship of the public matter, and of liberation of the people from the mercantile democracies which have made this a country of paupers begging to be serfs. Rockefeller’s failure was that he accepted the democratic framework of conservative/moderate/liberal instead of clearly enunciating a radical Republican ideology of liberation from mercantile corporations, from oppressive landlords and from tyrannical usurers who keep the people in subjection. In other words, Rockefeller failed to wage war against Conservatism and its democracies.

[@goldbrick2563]

Yes but didnt rockefeller and his family benefit from that mercantile set up? Nelson's nephew Sen. Jay Rockefeller was a Democrat for his career, but never effectuated change of the system. Rockefeller didnt believe in what you have written so nicely here.

[@cpklapper]

@@goldbrick2563 in some ways, Nelson was more an Aldrich than a Rockefeller, yet was still constrained by the democratic mercantilism which gave his family wealth. David ended up being the face of his family after Nelson’s decline.

[@DovidM-s4c]

He was wrong about the Republicans losing in 2016

[@mrteacherbear]

You can't pay people to like you.

[@mrteacherbear]

@madvocate0006 for how long and how much?

[@Spinbassflipbassfly]

rather hilarious how much this guy Cohen got completely wrong. The bigoted superior smarm he lets out at some points must have bitten him in the ass. "How could this have happened!?!?!" hahahahaha Honourable mention: the failed one clap at 53:54 when he calls Republicans racist. Yass queen slay.