8/8 Abortion... all of the culture wars. Reagan, dem pivot under Clinton, Bush, Obama with backlash and disappointment... The current events have been in motion since at least 1950s and the birth of modern American "freedom" and religious movement. It's surprisingly young.
Ok, let's go over some sources. A lot of stuff should be findable on wikipedia. But my sources that unintentionally(?) shown me the timeline was Behind the Bastards podcast. Episodes: The Second American Civil War You Never Learned About
The Business Plot: When Rich Fascists Almost Took Over America How The Rich Ate Christianity Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA Phyllis Schlafly: The Mother of all Culture Wars How Conservatism Won There might be more...
I would add Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" as well. It's more of a 1,000 foot view of everything you wrote but definitely spends a lot of time on the 1880-1930 labor movement and its slow dismantling post-WW2.
New time travel goals unlocked.
I’m not sure what we’re supposed to do to stop it, but we probably should?