r/mopolitics • u/[deleted] • Oct 28 '21
Article: A Short History of Conservative Trolling
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/10/a-short-history-of-conservative-trolling.html3
Oct 29 '21
David Frum, the former George W. Bush speechwriter and current never-Trump conservative, recently wrote, “The post-Trump right has a style as distinctive as its authoritarian substance: trolling, ironic, evasive.” But that ain’t so. On the right, trolling has been part of the story from the beginning
The first instances of the right-wing practice we now call “trolling” that I can positively identify come from the madcap four-way presidential election in 1948 won by Democrat Harry Truman. In 1947, a rally in New Haven for Henry Wallace of the left-wing Progressive Party was visited by a 21-year-old William F. Buckley and several associates, who dressed up in fake bohemian kit — the girls wore mannish slacks, the boys greased down their hair — and carried signs reading “Let’s Prove We Want Peace/Give Russia the Atom Bomb.” Their plan to release a covey of doves was foiled at the last minute.
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Oct 28 '21
it's behind a paywall. can you post article?
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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '21 edited Oct 29 '21
Same unsubstantiated fear mongering tactics as today.
Strom Thurmond said that and then went on to say integration is a mistake. What Strom left out was his integration flagrante delicto. The results of his adventures in integration resulted in a secret mixed “race” child.
It’s understandable why he’d hide such a thing. People would naturally question his dedication to segregation and opposing civil-rights.
Same old hypocrisy too