The Nation: The Ugly Underbelly of the US Men's Hockey Victory

[William Seger]

5. "But in the years that followed, Republicans have used that legend to sow division."

In the reactionary backlash to the Civil Rights Movement, since the days of Reagan, Limbaugh and Gingrich, Republican propaganda has been laser-focused on sowing division, in hopes of ending up with the bigger half. Their major stratagem has been to demonize liberals and liberalism — quite literally, in many cases. Rather than try to attract voters to the superiority of the "conservative" viewpoint, it's been more a matter of trying to chase them away from liberalism. It became an enormous cottage industry when Limbaugh discovered that demagoguery was also a cash cow.