Hell, you can trace that all the way back to Reagan. Basically any bad shit you can trace to Reagan

Nixon, even. The Southern Strategy set the template for Republican politics for the last 50-60 years. And the lesson they learned from Watergate wasn’t “don’t do crimes” but “cover them up better.”

Excellent point. I was thinking of my years as a voter (which start post-Reagan) but the Reagan years were really formative in shaping the GOP's current wretchedness.