I'm working on a book about how this happened in Oregon. It took decades to accomplish, but a fairly small contingent of committed right wing activists eventually stole the OR GOP away from the moderates who'd historically controlled it.
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When did the conspiracy-obsessed, fascist-friendly far right first get a foothold in the Oregon Republican Party? Would you believe me if I said 1962?
A story about that time in 1962 when a group of former Silver Shirts and present white nationalists and Christian supremacists came close to taking over the Multnomah County Republican Party.
