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Podcast: Plausibly Live - The Dave Bowman Show
Episode: 1876 Pt 2 - The 1984 Chicago Blitz
Description: There is a commonly believed idea that the Political Parties of today at some point in the past "switched" with each other, kind of like the Chicago Blitz and Arizona Wranglers exchanged everything, including their uniforms, back in 1983. So now, we are told, "everybody knows," that the Democrats of today are the Republicans of the 2nd half of the 19th Century; and that the Republicans of today are the Democrats of the 2nd half of the 19th Century.
In the past months, I have found that there are a great number of people who accept this claim...