History didn’t begin in 1980. Tariffs and economic interventionism were founding planks of the Lincoln GOP: https://mises.org/mises-daily/awful-truth-about-republicans

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Terr_ 5 days ago | parent [-]

Well, the "Lincoln GOP" was also generally in favor of tearing down and burning confederate flags, so I think it makes more sense to compare things over a shorter time-periods like "in living memory."

Parent poster's explicit "two decades back" scale is entirely reasonable for the phenomenon they are pointing out.

	▲	rayiner 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Lincoln was concerned about national unity foremost, and allowing the south to preserve its identity facilitated that after the war. It may have been the most successful reconciliation after a bitter civil war ever in history. Regardless, the economic forces shaping the nation have been shifting around but ever present since the founding. We were fighting about a central bank in 1789 and are still fighting about it today!