MSNBC Morning Joe December 31, 2021 11:43:00
Genius at that moment in 1989-'90 said nope, we're not doing that. we're going to begin the process and the campaign and the project of casting doubt on the science of climate change. so that was a big step down the slippery slope toward denying reality. but -- and then in the '90s as well and all kinds of other ways in these mad conspiracy ways, things that 30 years earlier the conservatives like william f. buckley and barry goldwater cast out of the mainstream of the right, the john bircher stuff, were allowed in, more and more and more, which came into the mainstream, the republican party, ...