Objects in the Past may be Closer than they Appear

Mark Olmsted
Nov 12, 2020

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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Mark Olmsted

Author, "Ink from the Pen: A Prison Memoir" about my time behind bars. See GQ dot com “Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die” for story of how I got there.