Perspective: Before Marjorie Taylor Greene, there was Larry McDonald. The two represented similar territory, but McDonald was far from a star — a contrast that exposes the newfound power of the far right.
In 1983, McDonald appeared on an early version of CNN’s “Crossfire,” where he falselythat “an elitist core” that “has seen value in subsidizing communism” and sought “the dissolution of national sovereignty on the road to world government” has “dominated the State Department for 40 years.”
There was strong bipartisan support for providing a legalization process for undocumented immigrants, accepting civil rights and voting rights as basically settled law, endorsing international alliances and military intervention, and championing free trade and the U.S. obligation to spread democracy overseas.
A few months after his “Crossfire” interview, McDonald was in a passenger jet bound for Seoul that accidentally strayed toward Soviet airspace. A Soviet fighter plane downed it, killing McDonald and 268 other civilians.In death, McDonald became a martyr to his fans, the ultimate victim of the communist conspiracy. McDonald’s allies, including his widow,that Reagan was reluctant to punish the Soviet Union’s mass murder, which was “typical” of the president’s weakness.
Rather than fighting back, Republican leaders often campaigned on pledges to enact some elements of the far right’s agenda — and then failed to do so in office.
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