Our disastrous seven-decade monster first arose about the time of the American Revolution.
It was back with a vengeance in the mid-19th century to wage a Civil War in hopes of destroying the nation and keeping slavery into perpetuity.
It came back in the 1920s to try its pet trinity of economic theories on a dumbed-down population. Conservatives said cutting taxes on the American aristocracy will create universal prosperity, so Calvin Coolidge engineered tax cuts and threw a rip-roaring party for the "haves." They argued that eliminating regulations to let corporations do as they very well wished would enhance productivity and add jobs to the population.
When those arguments proved to be failures they said doing nothing by government was the way to go and the invisible hand of "free capitalism" would solve all problems of the Great Depression the first theories led to. That also failed.
Now we have another go-round with the same old failed policies The Harding-Coolidge-Hoover legacy resurrected by one Ronald Reagan, and two George Bushes with some continuation by a Clinton between the Bushes completes the seven-decade conundrum.
Presently, many in the leftish political community are frolicking after the election rout by progressive and liberal candidates, which many proclaim as the "death of the conservative movement." There will be no "death" because this evil will periodically raise its ugly head on schedule to threaten future generations with the same old same old that now threatens us.
The present resurrection of the criminal right heralded in by Sen. Barry Goldwater, Republican of Arizona, and journalist Buckley the Daddy in the early-1960s took about 15 years to take over government and run a ruinous course for nearly 30. It is now resting to lie dormant until beginning another resurrection to prominence in the 2030-40 time frame and take control again around 2050 to run roughshod over the nation for a couple of decades.
It has repeatedly happened before and will happen again.
Our time periods:
1780-90: progressive measures of the Constitution and Bill of Rights were strongly opposed by the political right that had risen up to oppose the fight for independence only years earlier.
1850s: the right rises again with efforts to destroy the union to preserve slavery. (late 1780s-late 1850s = 70 years)
1920s: the right rises again with Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. (1850s-1920s = 70 years)
1980s: the right rises again with election of Ronald Reagan as president, a Republican Senate and conservative House of Representatives. (1920s-1980s = 60 years)
2050: expect the right to have regained power after years of building support from the mid-2030s.
The political right rose up strongly when thoughts of independence from Great Britain began seeping into progressive minds in the 1760s and '70s. While the left prevailed, the right presented a formidable obstacle, led by Gen. Benedict Arnold, trying to destroy the independence movement and prevent self-rule.
The right considered itself the American aristocracy and wanted no separation from the nation that protected aristocratic positions. Right-wingers were Tories then and are Tories today. With the Tory defeat that culminated in a new progressive nation in the 1780s and '90s, the right went dormant as a political force, but the new nation was much better than the 13 colonies that preceded it.
