Have you ever heard of Russell Kirk and the origins of today’s fascist GOP?
Most people say: “Who’s that?” and similar questions. Others are that Republicans actually believed the middle class created by FDR’s New Deal was a bad thing. So, here’s the backstory.
I was twenty years old in 1964 when I ran across John Stormer’s book “None Dare Call It Treason.” The Goldwater campaign promoted the book as well as promoting its claim that the State Department was filled with communists intent on handing America over to the USSR had his friends buzzing.
Ironically, Stormer’s book and the movement it ignited within the GOP is largely responsible for that party today standing on the precipice of fully endorsing fascism as an alternative to democracy in the US.
And it was started by morbidly rich men (it was all men back then) who wanted to use the threat of a “communist menace” to gut the union movement to increase their own corporate profits and CEO pay.
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We are literally facing the authoritarian future that John Stormer was warning us about back in 1964. Only instead of “communists” in the State Department, it’s a billionaire president with the avowed goal of ending union rights and locking up or using the Army with live ammunition against those who protest his policies.
And it all tracks back to wealthy conservatives funding a project in the 1960s to scare Americans about socialism and communism so they could stop the union-fueled growth of wages that were cutting into their profits.
Perhaps none dare call it treason. But I do.