It started in 1971 under Nixon. The guy who said "You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*gger, n*gger, n*gger.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*gger”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*gger, n*gger.”

[–] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 2 points 1 month ago

You are correct. It felt like nixon did not have the support in congress and the public such that he was sorta forced to do some things including conservation and he was sorta a one termer so his damage was a bit mitigated but it was really the start given we only had one of carter. The deregulation and tax decreases under reagan really got things going. It funny as im not sure before nixon but its the start of republican presidents not really winning elections free and clear. nixon (watergate), ford (in due to nixon), reagan (iran/contra), bush sr (coattails of reagan), bush jr (hanging chads florida supreme court decision), trump (voter suppression, gerrymandering, froeign interferance, at this point its everything and anything to get those technical electoral college wins)