Patient Zero in the Overton Window shift was probably Goldwater, but Reagan is the airline flight attendant who spread it worldwide.
Digging waaaaaay back:
Robert Ingersoll was a Republican. From Art and Morality, 1888.
Quote:
Art cultivates and kindles the imagination, and quickens the conscience. It is by imagination that we put ourselves in the place of another. When the whigs of that faculty are folded, the master does not put himself in the place of the slave; the tyrant is not locked in the dungeon, chained with his victim. The inquisitor did not feel the flames that devoured the martyr. The imaginative man, giving to the beggar, gives to himself. Those who feel indignant at the perpetration of wrong, feel for the instant that they are the victims; and when they attack the aggressor they feel that they are defending themselves. Love and pity are the children of the imagination.
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I hope this helps bring back that loathing!