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Part One: Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars

Behind the Bastards

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Phyllis Schlafly - She's the Person...

Phyllis Schlafly is the person who took straight up fascist Christian right-wing politics and took them into the mainstream. She turned the Republican Party into the party of fucking QAnon. That's her accomplishment. Without Phyllis, we probably don't have President Ronald Reagan. We may not have either President Bush, the Iraq War, the Push to Man abortion, the Trump campaign or any of a lot of other terrible things that are currently pushing our country to the brink of a nightmare.

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