Objects in the Past may be Closer than they Appear

I tend to go through this same analysis in my head once a week:

Trump all started with birtherism
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With the Tea Party
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With Bush v. Gore
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The rise of Fox and Talk Radio
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Newt Gingrich and the Contract on America
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Reagan, definitely the Reagan years
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Nixon’s southern strategy and law and order “silent majority”
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The military/industrial complex and the folly of Vietnam
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McCarthyism and the triumph of right-wing demagoguery
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America First and detention of the Japanese
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The rabid capitalism of the roaring 20’s leading to the Great Depression
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The jingoism of World War I, the racism of Wilson and the Red Scare of the post-war period
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The Jim Crow south and the ubiquity of lynching
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The failure of Reconstruction
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The genocide of the remaining Native American population
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The Civil War even having to happen
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The Dred Scott Case
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The Mexican-America war and Manifest Destiny as a national policy
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The Constitution considering women unworthy of suffrage and enslaved people 3/5th human