Nixon, Trump, Agnew, Reagan

[Cypress]

That's where the money is.

Conservatives hate government and government employees, so I can't see what attracts them to public service unless it involves using the tools of government to excercise raw power or the opportunity for personal benefit.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Conservatives hate government and government employees, so I can't see what attracts them to public service unless it involves using the tools of government to excercise raw power or the opportunity for personal benefit.

They do now, but it wasn't always that way. That effort was in the minority among White Supremacists for decades until Newt's Republican Revolution AKA Angry White Man Revolt.

https://www.history.com/news/midter...can-revolution-gingrich-contract-with-america
The 1994 Midterms: When Newt Gingrich Helped Republicans Win Big
A strategy to give congressional campaigns a unified, national message under the "Contract With America" led to a Republican sweep.

The midterms introduced extreme, divisive politics.
As for the contract's lasting impact? Most of its ideas and proposals did not pass Congress, or were vetoed by Clinton, and, according to Teske, the ones that did pass were not radical departures and instead relatively minor in scope. But it did put Republicans back in power in Congress, which they've largely held onto in the years since.

"The Gingrich approach of extreme right ideas, combined with a scorched-earth personal level of politics in attacking opponents—later seen in Clinton’s investigations and impeachment—has also had a major impact on American politics," he says. "It helped bring a much more 'win at all costs' mentality, and a divisiveness that persists today."