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I don't disagree Nixon was huge but I think it goes from before that.
I personally really think it started directly at the start with the creation of the political parties, something Washington foresaw but also the establishment of America by the wealthy slave owning elite made this direction inevitable. But we could argue a lot about that.
Andrew Johnson's presidency and the assassination of Lincoln left scars that never healed and created the mould that I think the conservative base still stems from. Ever heard that quote "the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" I really think there's a weirdo psychic hole these people experienced without even being fully aware. A lot of them come from former slave owning rich families and that underlying knowledge they used to have wealth did something to them.
You can also look at the wannabe coup against FDR, the Business Plot, rich fucks basically wanted to overthrow FDR.
Those three things to me really set the groundwork and then marches in Allen Dulles and his CIA. In a conversation with Charles de Gaulle, JFK admitted he didn't have control over the intelligence apparatus which was plotting to assassinate de Gaulle.
Then marches in Nixon and not soon after Reagan. The culture divide from the dawn of America, the humiliated and now destitute former slave owners with generational anger, the tycoons and their confidence to plot and peel away at democracy, a compromised intelligence apparatus with a black budget likely stemming from drug and human trafficking which they are in charge of investigating.
Suddenly the whole scene is set. The wealthy get their Epsteins, their cocaine, the means to hide it, the political pawns to support it and an ignorant, desperate base to use as their voting bloc. Gerrymandering only makes it all too easy especially with the broken representation system where smaller populations literally have more voting weight.
Government transparency, wealth distribution and strong social safety nets to reinforce education and healthcare, ranked voting, an end to gerrymandering and a heavy blow to how votes matter are, to me, the first steps to start fixing some of this shit.
I agree they're running low on fuel. But a cornered rat and all that.
Imagine the changes if we could end gerrymandering, and make the house truly representative population wise as it was meant to be. It's not some magic bullet that would solve everything, but it would help set the path forward.
Alas, the Senate intentionally does not provide equal representation and skews to more power for smaller states, so that would be a harder fix I think between the three.