Why do many Democrats think it’s OK to smear their opponents, silence them, get them fired, and physically assault them? Why do they think it’s OK to bend the law and corporate policy to enact their objectives? Because someone has told them that their opponents are literally the philosophical continuation of the lineage of slaveholders and Jim Crow defenders, to whom it is OK to dish out such treatment. But how did they get that idea?
Meet The Magical Switching Parties Conspiracy Theory, aka “The Lie That Turned Millennials Liberal.” The MSPCT helped Democrats pretend that their rivals now bore the guilt of slavery and Jim Crow. It made the jump from obscure political science journals (mid-70s-late 80s) into being considered “history” in the 1990s, just in time for the Left’s overall pivot from class to race, a pivot all but compelled by how the Soviet Union’s collapse debunked the idea any viable alternative to markets existed. The idea that the parties “switched” was unknown in history textbooks before the 90s, but became considered “history” in time for millennials to pass through high school and college.
And without voters who believed the parties “switched,” well, let’s just that Democrats crying racism would still be enduring Reagan-opponent-levels of defeat.
