Most Republicans weren't even alive in the 1940s. This would probably fit better for '80s-Republicans, who routinely invoked the Cold War politics of Truman and Eisenhower.
Modern Republicans - especially younger ones who became mobilized during the Trump Era - don't have any real appreciation or understanding of the country during the 1940s. All they know is that our nation is run by pedophiles, taxes are too high, Mexican Muslim China is winning the trade war, and they can't have kids because liberals are turning everyone gay.
Lanyard-wearing freaks like Ben Shapiro and Dan Crenshaw probably have this false-memory of an American Golden Age. But the rank and file party loyalist is fixated entirely on the modern day.
Kind of agree and kind of disagree, I think the key idea you do touch on is that it is definitely a false memory of a golden age that never existed, and it would probably be more safely placed in the 50s than the 40s. They are obsessed with the things you list, but partially because those are the things preventing America from reclaiming its former glory. They need to get rid of the Mexicans, taxes, pedos, so they can make America great again and every family will be a Norman Rockwell painting without the bad things causing moral and economic decay, and everyone will pray to Jesus and small businesses will thrive just like this lost golden age.
This belief in a previous ideal that has decayed is what allows them to be flag humpers while simultaneously hating America as it currently is constituted.
It really misses a lot, but I think this a better understanding of how Republicans think than pretty much anyone who works for the New York Times has.
Most Republicans weren't even alive in the 1940s. This would probably fit better for '80s-Republicans, who routinely invoked the Cold War politics of Truman and Eisenhower.
Modern Republicans - especially younger ones who became mobilized during the Trump Era - don't have any real appreciation or understanding of the country during the 1940s. All they know is that our nation is run by pedophiles, taxes are too high, Mexican Muslim China is winning the trade war, and they can't have kids because liberals are turning everyone gay.
Lanyard-wearing freaks like Ben Shapiro and Dan Crenshaw probably have this false-memory of an American Golden Age. But the rank and file party loyalist is fixated entirely on the modern day.
Kind of agree and kind of disagree, I think the key idea you do touch on is that it is definitely a false memory of a golden age that never existed, and it would probably be more safely placed in the 50s than the 40s. They are obsessed with the things you list, but partially because those are the things preventing America from reclaiming its former glory. They need to get rid of the Mexicans, taxes, pedos, so they can make America great again and every family will be a Norman Rockwell painting without the bad things causing moral and economic decay, and everyone will pray to Jesus and small businesses will thrive just like this lost golden age.
This belief in a previous ideal that has decayed is what allows them to be flag humpers while simultaneously hating America as it currently is constituted.