Trump gave a weird speech to thousands of Boy Scouts in which he relitigated election & crowd sizes (again)

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@zathras

What’s special about 1967?

Not quite to the year, but the passing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 is usually seen as the watershed moment when the US right went batshit insane. Desegregation of public education drove the explosion in segregated religious schools which drove the rise of the religious right.

It’s apparently when the BSA turned:

@anon76551318

Just want to mention that when I was in the Scouts (Pacific Northwest, early-mid 1960s) it was as secular and non-partisan an outfit as you could imagine. Religion seldom came up–although there were Christian Sunday prayers at Camporee–and neither politics nor rah-rah militarism were mentioned. Sexuality was never discussed, not even among the kids (believe it or not!). It was all camping, hiking, building things, and hanging out with friends. Maybe it was just our Scout leaders who chose to run things that way. Whatever the case, it was a shock to me when, later in the sixties, the BSA became notorious for spouting conservative politics, supporting our troops, and kicking out the Wrong Sort of People.