I posted many years ago about the shrewd ambiguity behind the MAGA slogan. When was America last great? Some very exacting reactionaries would say it was 1912, before Woodrow Wilson took office. Some would argue for 1932; it was the New Deal that destroyed American freedom. A few would probably clamor for the Reagan era. But most would say it was the fifties: a time of steady economic growth, American industrial primacy, substantial equality, and relative cultural unity.
And, of course, it was a time in which black Americans had no political power. It is becoming increasingly clear from the innumerable vote suppression efforts that this is the part of the fifties the GOP most wants to recreate, under the guise of preventing nonexistent “fraud.”
Hey, it could be worse. At least they aren’t trying to bring back de jure segregation. That was part of the fifties, too.