Check out the date on this page from the March, 1994 edition of the Christian Coalition’s Christian American newspaper. It’s “Christian” nationalism on full display, and it became the majority of the elected Republican Party the morning after the November 1994 election.
This is Mike Huckabee, the same Mike Huckabee who attended a 2015 GOP candidates’ forum in Des Moines, Iowa, whose host openly called for the execution of LGBTQ Americans in a speech that neither Huckabee nor attendee Bobby Jindal repudiated.
Below are four snapshots from 1994 editions of the conservative publication California Political Review:
Libertarian John Howard’s closing statement is damning: “But Mr. Pulliam’s characterization does confirm what I suspected all along: in his view the First Amendment must serve his philosophy rather than his philosophy serving the First Amendment. It is those who see their ideologies as paramount who deny free expression to those with whom they disagree. And they are dangerous.” Mark Pulliam is a fierce, avowed enemy of individual liberty. Even in the brief excerpts pictured, you can just feel his contempt for individual rights.
Look at the date. Summer 1994. After the November 1994 election, MAGA’s religious-nationalist totalitarian view had already become the majority view in the elected Republican Party.
But that fact went almost totally unreported. WHERE were the so-called coff-coff “liberal media???”
Portraying this early wave of MAGA fascists as harmless “people of faith” who aim to cut taxes, that’s where.
The real dark force behind 1994’s Wave of Hate election was not what the MSM attributed it to. James Inhofe, arguably the stupidest man to hold a Senate seat in the last 80 years, began his Senate career on a “God, guns and gays” campaign of hate, as did many, may others.
Don’t kid yourselves. The 1994 “freshmen Republicans” would have been perfectly comfortable with the January 6th insurrection. This “freshman class” was already that extreme. But the cowardly mainstream media buried that fact.
Far right paranoia and conspiratorial fantasies were already fully developed by the end of the 1990s. Remember the far right fearmongering in 1994 about the “CLAS test” in public schools? “PsychoHeresy Awareness Ministries” produced this, and the Los Angeles Times reported on it: “The Dark Fears Behind the CLAS Tests.“
The CLAS Test bogeyman was swiftly followed by right wing paranoia about “outcomes based education” and “Goals 2000.” (The second article is a paywall but you are shown enough to prove my point. Also, note the year: 1994.)
So, this MAGA paranoia that aims to suppress and censor anything other than their own is not at all new. The current MAGA hate campaign against “DEI” and “wokeism” is nothing more than the same 30-year old paranoid hate propaganda with updated branding.
I, and a thousand others like me, have been warning and warning and warning about this since the early 1990s. This is my own work from 1993-1998, when I was just 20-25 years old.
WHERE were the “liberal media” on this??
Trying to pretend that “Christian” nationalism didn’t exist or couldn’t happen here. Well, it has existed for over 30 years, as I have shown, and has been growing like a cancer under the willful blindness of the mainstream news media all this time.
And because of this gross, criminal negligence of the cowardly “liberal” media, refusing to give it the attention that it desperately required, this now-Stage 4 cancer has put our country and our Constitution in mortal danger.
The “liberal” MSM’s dereliction of duty is significantly responsible for the peril that our nation is in today.
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2 responses to “MAGA Is Over 30 Years Old – and the MSM Did Their Damnedest to Bury The Story”
Thanks for the throwback! There it was, right under my nose. Oh my God, I forgot about the CLAS tests and outcome based education. This jogs a lot of memories.
Do you remember the fearmongering about the “school to work” initiative? That was another thing that extremists were paranoid about.
Yes!! That’s another one. 1994 really was an ugly year of hate, wasn’t it? They have so many bogeymen that it’s hard to remember them all!
https://www.edutopia.org/four-reports-look-back-school-work-movement
I’ve been doing more digging through my own early files. I feel a sequel coming on.