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mr. gorbachev teared down this wall. >> remember that republican party? how did the party of lincoln turned into this? >> get out. >> i would like to punch them in the face, i will tell ya. >> a radical transformation. decades in the making.
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but the roots -- are old and deep. then there were the rabbit fears of the john birch society. now the crazy conspiracies of qanon. >> joe biden is the biggest pedophile. >> exploiting god for votes began a long time ago. >> this war is for the soul of america. >> 317, that's the whole ball game. voter suppression. >> i don't want anybody to vote. >> cheating democracy. >> massive purges. millions upon millions removed. >> the ugly history of racism. >> if you are a black
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republican, you would suddenly feel this party didn't want you there anymore. a party in deep trouble. >> the so-called trump-basis a shrinking base. this is not working. it is not working for america and republicans. >> it cannot even govern. what the hell happened to republicans? good evening, i am fareed zakaria. america had ns never lived thro america lieke this one. donald trump is gone but the simple truth is, it may just be
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for now. much of the gop believes that big lie and it is busy trying to make it harder for americans to vote. what on earth happened to the republican party? the only way to find the answers is to go back to the beginning of this story. >> a hot july, 1964. san francisco's cal palace. an arena built to showcase capitol. it is packed with herds of republicans. thousands of rowdy delegates here to choose the gop candidate for president. >> i have never seen a convention like this at this time. >> at the podium stands a strong group. one on the road to extinct. >> well, i don't believe there is a thing as a liberal
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republican. >> actually, there were many liberals in the gop. like governor nelson, rockefeller of new york. he demanding that his party denounce extremism. >> extremism on fear, hate and terror. they encourage this unity. >> the crowd quickly turns hostile. >> he starts being booed in a remarkably vicious way. >> the governor is entitled to be heard for five minutes. he can't be heard for five minutes if we have constant eruption. >> conservative republicans
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despice the party. >> these are people who have nothing common with the community. >> now, look, the governor has not had a chance to speak. he's been up here 10 minutes but he has not had a chance to talk for about four minutes. >> senator barry goldwater of arizona. one of the most right-wing politician in the country. but, there is one delegate determines to stop the goldwater jug. >> oh, i think the core would
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not support the nominee of g goldwater. >> that's not just any republicans. >> jackie robinson is an american hero. the first black player in major league baseball. >> there seems to be some concerns that former great, jackie robinson may lead a negro walk out of this convention then rather -- jackie, can you explain to us the walk out over a vote of cannabis. is that right? this is much of the emphasized, nobody is walking out of the republican party. >> robinson deplores the far-right goldwater. he remains loyal to the party of lincoln. if you are a black republican,
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you would suddenly feel this party is in your home since everywhere. this party did not want you there anymore. >> 40,000 people, half of them are negroes demonstrated against goldwater. >> those who felt unwanted took to the streets including jackie robinson. at the heart of their anger, the 1964, civil rights. signed into law just days before the convention began. barry goldwater was one of only 27 senators to vote against it. >> we are being aske asked -- promoting the civil rights of others. >> historians say goldwater was not a ri sis. -- racist. >> most agree he did not do enough to denounce segregation. at the convention, the racial
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climate is growing ugly. >> the negro race. >> i am the first human being. >> they got a demonstrator at the center isle. >> a black man protesting in goldwater is dragged out by security. >> a spatter. >> a lot of people watching on tv. >> jackie robinson said he thought he knew what it felt like to be a jew in hitler germany. >> america's most famous black republican finally seen enough. >> mr. robinson -- >> he walked out of the convention and the party for
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good. >> we'll not stand for any negro party. nominating a man in my opinion that's bigot and attempting us from moving forward. >> i would remind you that extremism and the defense of liberty is no vice. >> he calls his supporters to be extremist and radical. was it a water shed moment in america? yes, it was. >> goldwater's defensive extremism would lose him the election. >> lyndon johnson landslide of november 3rd, 1964. he received 5% of the black vote down to 32% for richard nixon
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four years earlier. goldwater changed history for the republicans. he created what we now know as a right wing base. >> what goldwater does in '64 is he brings together the cold war republicans opposed the business regulations. he brings those together with the southern democrats, the southern white supremacists who were against the idea of desegregation. he marries them with a new coalition. >> the founder of modern conservatism. he wrote, "a conservative is someone who stands up for history yelling stop." the right would shout stop over and over again in the coming decades. >> those shouts echoed through the 1960s as america exploded.
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>> cities were wracked wry rioters over civil rights and police shooting. >> don't bow down anymore. >> hold your heads up. >> thousands would die in the jungle of vietnam. >> and antiwar protests filled the streets. enters presidential candidate richard nixon. he knew how terrifying 1968 was to the right-wing base. >> the wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in america. >> fear.
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fear. fear. >> nixon used what was called the southern strategy. >> built a base by attracting more white support in the south with subtle appeals to racism. >> those cold wars and dog whistles, law and order. >> law and order is something that everybody wants. >> the right loved nixon until he began to run the country. to their horror, he wanted to make government bigger. >> he proposed a universal health insurance program and no president left behind a more ambitious environment legacy than nixon. >> it was disappointing for a lot of conservatives. >> there is the president waving
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good-bye. >> then the watergate scandal consumed the nixon presidency. >> it would be 1980 before conservatives found a new hero. ronald reagan was goldwater's r r reincarnated. >> it only took them 16 years to count the vote. >> ronald reagan took the goldwater's message and he put a sunnier face on. >> he had a sense of real triumph, america's society is going to change their fundamental ways. >> he was and is a republican icon for defeating the soviet union. but, once again a conservative darling shocked the base with
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his domestic policies. >> he didn't cut spending. he ended up as you know exploded the debt and the deficit. >> the reagan revolution turned out to be more rhetoric than reality. the great society state, reagan even expanded medicaid. >> when reagan left office not having radically transformed america, conservatives became more ready. >> the right long for a fighter, reagan, the elite, george w. bush did not fit the bill. >> conservatives felt betrayed one more time. now they found the new hero, the man who wrecked bush's
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presidency, newt gingrich. >> he went with the message of rage and resentment and betrayal and cultural war. >> we'll change their world, they'll do anything to stop us. >> gingrich bpioneered the figh club mentality that'll consume the gop. >> gingrich understood that his voters did not care about winning policy fights. what they cared about was fighting. >> mr. gingrich will whisper in your right ear and i will whisper in your left ear. >> boost paragraph newt gingrich were some powerful allies. >> the rise of fox news in the mid 1990s fed the sense of conservative grievance. >> a few broadcast takes any chances these days and most are politically correct. while we are going to be
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different. >> the way we were born and cover it. >> we could not make the voters believe that we could limit the size of government then we had to fight the cultural wars. >> by the time george w. bush became president, a new wave of conservative lawmakers were ready for politics as war. but once again another bush po disappointed them. >> the president of the united states. >> i remember sitting in the state of the union address, the first one with george w. bush where he was talking about no child left behind and some of these kind of big government programs that mike pence and i were kind of gasping at. we felt that finally the battle to the war is over. >> that disappointment would turn into rage. >> during bush's failed war in
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iraq, and the financial crisis and the bail-outs that bush supported. >> it just destroyed and discredited he was trying to do and left the way opening for different kinds of radicals. >> it was of course race, the issue that republicans had happily exploited that would finally push the party to the edge. a black president in the white house ptriggered a traumatic response. >> the rise of the tea party movement was supposed to be a response to obamacare. but in reality, it was mostly a response to obama's race. >> obama's election was a trigger.
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>> this president has exposed himself as a guy over and over again who has a deep seated hatred for white people. >> the base began not only to hate obama. what is wrong with this president? but to bdispice gop leaders to stop him. >> searching instead for someone who would embodied their rage and finally give them their revolution. we are going to win so big, thank you so much. l'oréal paris. scara by for mega volume, yet mega light. a whipped formula and a cushiony brush. new air volume mega mascara by l'oréal paris. you're worth it. up at 2:00am again?
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poll watchers more power to challenge voters. >> that's a lie. >> i am going to sign it right here. it is going to take in effect. >> mail-in voting much harder. >> the ayes are 100. the nays are 75. >> the law passed in georgia. >> i will not back down. strictly limits drop boxes and makes it a crime to give water to voters standing online. >> how inhumane these legis legislatures could be? >> we'll stop the steal. >> they have all been triggered by a lie. we won in a landslide. that was landslide. this is the most corrupted election in the country or maybe the world. >> i just received a call from secretary clinton. >> from the electoral college in
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the white house in 2016. in 2020. >> cnn projects joseph r. biden jr. is elected. >> he lost both the electoral college and the popular vote. >> 302, 232. >> that lost highlighted a big problem for republicans. these days, they faced a daunting challenge in winning real majority. >> in the last each presidential election, the republican candidate for president has won the popular vote only once. >> thank you all. in 2004. the republicans have found a way to lose and yet still win. >> this is made elements in the party sour on democracy itself. >>. >> absentee ballots verification laws. >> how else to explain this in. >> trust in our elections.
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>> introducing at least 45 state legislatures according to the center for justice. >> all to make it harder for americans to vote. >> how many of our christians, they want everybody to vote. i don't want everybody to vote. >> it is a reflex on the right that has been built for decades. >> as a matter of fact. >> and the rights were hero, ronald reagan. >> during barry goldwater's, 1964 campaign. >> i have known goldwater for a long time. reagan was part of operation eagle eye. a nationwide gop effort that monitored voters of color in the name of preventing voter fraud.
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william was the future chief, led part of the effort in arizona where hispanic people were forced to read the constitution before they could vote. >> its purpose was to challenge people to were trying to cast a ballot and not just people but intimidating and challenging minority voters. >> every american citizen must have an equal right to vote. >> after the voting rights act finally allowed millions of black people to vote. >> here is something that could help our kitchen. >> president jimmy carter wanted to expand voting even more. >> it is time for universal voter, registration. >> proposing same day registration nationwide among other reforms. >> it would have increase the
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nation's turnout vote by an estimated 20%. ronald reagan was dead set against the measures, warning election workers would sweep through metropolitan areas, scooping up apathetic voters to keep the benefit dispenser in power. >> that's vintage reagan. >> the law would make the gop as dead as the dodo bird, reagan said. >> he said "we should use ps psychology and make it difficult to vote." >> we'll take action. >> the election boogie man pointed to years. >> fraudulently casting votes. >> to justify more voting. >> it is going to be fraud all over the place. but study after study , by
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democrats and republicans have found voter fraud is less than common by getting struck by lightning. >> from 2000 to 2014, there were 1 billion votes cast. out of those 1 billion, that's with a "b," there were 31 cases of voter impersonation fraud. 31 in 15 years out of 1 billion votes. >> it is a scene that's played out in states across the country. >> republicans used the myth of widespread voter fraud to best dozens of laws, making it disproportionately difficult for black people to vote. >> pushing more voters out of the ballot box. >> hundreds of thousands of voters may not have necessarily id. >> we are ready to march to ballot boxes.
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>> it was a shameful echo of the jim crow south. >> one of the most troubling measures. >> one troubling measure was in north carolina. >> thank you, thannorth carolin! >> after obama flipped the state in '08. republican state legislatures gathered meticulous data to see how black people voted, which id they used to vote. >> ladies, ladies. we are here to take your early voting and which days they went to the poll. >> this is the day that we vote for obama, including sunday after church. then they wrote a new election law that would have made jim crow proud. >> this 57 page of obama nation, restricting the very ways that black voters cast their ballots.
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a federal court rote that republicans targeted african-americans with almost surgical precision. >> this is as close to a smoke gun as we'll ever seen. >> by 2016 elections, there were more smoking guns. >> that was the first presidential election in 50 years when black voters faced the full assault on their voting rights. the full implementation of voter right id laws. almost 1200 polling places closed, millions upon millions removed from the voter roles. >> a voter id law in wisconsin
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may have helped swing the states to trump. tens of thousands of people did not have the right id to vote and black voters turned out plu plummeted. >> donald trump will carry the state of wisconsin. >> trump won the state by less than 23,000 ballots. >> election officials could face felony charges. >> today in 2021. republicans merely suppressing the vote, they are trying to pry away power from election officials as gop states legislatures attempt to seize control over how the votes are accounted. ready to blow away the rules of volume? new air volume mega mascara by l'oréal paris. for mega volume, yet mega light.
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let me give you some snapshots of the republican party today. >> in the cnn poll conducted after january 6th, 70% of republicans said they did not believe that joe biden won the election legitimately. >> there are too much evidence of fraud. >> fight for trump! fight for trump! >> over 40% believe that bill gates is planning to use the covid 19 vaccine as a pretext to imp implant microchips in people's brain in order to track them. >> one and four republicans agree with the qanon theory.
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>> joe biden is the biggest pedophile on the face o f the planet. >> not a conspiracy. it is a fact. >> fight for america. >> it becomes impossible to deny. >> the republican party today has been infected by a series of crazy conspiracy theory. why? the paranoid strain in america politics runs deep through the country's history. this kind of fear and suspicion of power has roots on the right going back to more than half a century. there is a big difference between then and now. in the past, paranoia never went mainstream. today the republican party leaders have encouraged many of the supporters' worst fears and
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fantasies. this is the story of how conspiracy theirories and theorists move from the fringe of the party smacked down to the center. >> it begins in the early years of the cold war. the soviet junion got the bomb, china went economist. america was so strong and powerful and rich. many things in the world did not go america's way. >> joseph mccarthy electrify the country by explaining this was happening because of treason at home. now a candy manufacturer named robert welch picked up mccarthy's baton.
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in 1958, he founded the john birch's society that would have a profound impact on the gop for decades to come. >> for a lot of people in that confusing post period, they wanted the easy answers. people like the john birch society gaifrve them answers. >> everywhere they look, they saw a looming internal communist menace. within a few years, they had built a powerful grass roots organization. >> we too are involved in a contest between freedom loving human beings everywhere and the forces of communism. >> they stopped at no one, welch even accused of the hero of d-day of being a conscious agent
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of the conspiracy. they demanded the impeachment of the chief justice of the supreme court for desegregation. they fought tooth and nail of the civil rights communcommunis. those views reached millions of americans to widely distributed pamphlets, magazines and books. >> treason. these horrible economy are infecting the youths of america. >> the bush es finally found someone they like. the goldwater. >> it is hard to imagine goldwater getting the nomination in 1964.
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>> the only enemy of the world is communism. he had been urged to denounce robert welch and the deranged society. goldwater called out welch himself but careful in his extra creditism of society. >> we have never been attacked. i am far more fearful of the radical members of the left than the birch society. >> this was the beginning of a calculated two-faced dance by republican politicians. not voicing the conspiracy themselves but embracing the conspiracy's theorists. now, ever since of donald trump's election, republicans are in denial of the condemnation of the crazies.
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southern baptist jerry falwell made his name in the late 1960s to his sermons broadcasting across the country on sunday morning. >> falwell was a fundamentalist who believes the bible should be interpreted literally. he delivered about america's moral decay. >> if the nation does not come back to god, it is all gone. >> most white evangelicals at
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the time, falwell believes religion and politics did not mix. >> politics was satan's realm. >> that changed in the 1970s especially after the federal government gave private schools an youultimatum. >> private schools are not practicing racial discrimination. >> some evangelicals built their own school as a response to federal desegregation. for many, there was another important driver to provide their children with a bible-based education after the supreme court bans school's prayers in 1972. >> the irs received 150,000 protest letters. >> we'll pull this nation back to moral sanity.
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>> i call it the moral majority. >> the moral majority. >> the mission of falwell's army was to restore america's christian identity. >> a sleeping giant is standing up. >> falwell's movement became a political force. >> protesting abortion. >> he said it is adam and eve, not adam and steve. >> the moral majority claimed to have registered millions of christians to vote in the 1980 election, helping ronald reagan win the white house in a landslide. >> preserve, prostect and defen the constitution of the united states so help me god. >> the former hollywood actor became the perfect spokesperson
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for christian values. >> i believe faith and religion play a critical role in our nation and always have. >> overtime the right-group frustrated because abortion remains remains the law of the land and gay rights were advancing. >> there is a religious war going on in this country. it is a cultural war, as krits c krits -- critical to the kind of nation we shall be. this war is for r the soul of america. >> praise the lord. >> the religious right have become the most powerful interest group in the gop. at the same time they could see they were losing the culture. >> america was becoming less
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religious, less conservative and less white. >> in 2008, barack obama's election was to white christian conservatives, a kind of death nail. >> christian conservatives have lost. they lost the fight over their ability to define what it means to be an american. >> this desperation on the right was an opportunity for donald trump. >> i brought my bible. >> see? >> trump understood how to tap into the deep angle and sense of grievance that had been building among white christian conservatives for decades. >> christianity is under siege, folks. it is undersiege. >> the founders recognized how dangerous those sort of governments could be. >>
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he was, also, referring to the growing secularization of society. his first book, "god and man at yale" published in 1951, was a diatribe against, what he believed, were the anti-christian and anticapitalist forces at the nation's best universities. buckley yelled stop, again, during the civil-rieghts movement. writing in 1957, that the south must prevail, because the more-advanced, white race, had an obligation and right to rule over others. he changed his mind during the mid-1960s, but many conservatives remain staunchly opposed to the landmark civil-rights bills of 1964 and '65. in other words, the modern-republican party has its roots in rebellion. rebellion against the main currents of change, in modern-american society. the growth of the welfare state. the secularization of life. and the increasing diversity of american society.
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the trouble is most americans don't agree with that protest. they may express discomfort with the welfare state, in theory. but in practice, they love social security, medicare, and the rest. secularization is a force that is sweeping almost-all advanced-industrial societies. and one government can do little to stop. and america's growing diversity is inevitable in a country built on immigration, and has proved mostly to be a strength, not a weakness. but republican politicians are, now, riding the back of a tiger. and they can't get off. reagan, gingrich, trump. all the icons on the right. whip their followers up into a froth of hiysteria and promise that they will repeal and reverse most of these terrible trends. but, of course, it never happens, which makes the republican base get more and more angry. and as their sense of betrayal grows, so does that their sense
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of desperation that american civilization is in imminent danger of collapse. there is a great and honorable space in america for a party of limited and efficient government, that values traditionalism. and that believes that social change should take place, slowly and organically. but, that's different from a band of ideological warriors with apocalyptic visions that fear the end of days, see opponents as traitors and devils. and believes that all methods are sanctioned in its battle to save civilization and itself. in short, the republican party needs to have a plolitical exorcism, drive out its demons, and come to terms with the modern world. i'm fareed zakaria. thanks for watching this special. nted car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand-new
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