Read It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis. It’s disturbing.
“Has become,” cute. I think a reasonable argument can be made they became one post-New Deal and definitely after LBJ’s legislation and the greater Civil Rights movement. They certainly were one by the time Barry Goldwater and Nixon’s southern strategy.
If anyone is looking, I made !amateur_radio (https://sh.itjust.works/c/amateur_radio).
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