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Which party started modern dirty politics in the US to win elections, Democrats or Republicans?

Asked by mazingerz88 (28814points) October 4th, 2018 from iPhone

An older friend of mine who passed away at the age of 86 weeks ago once told me the likes of Karl Rove had a mentor ( forgot the name ) who was good in deploying nasty attacks on political opponents.

This led to Rove helping W. Bush win the Republican nomination and defeat McCain by using dirty tactics successfully.

Let’s just say by modern, I meant starting in the 1990s. And by dirty politics I mean below the belt attacks on the opponent, lying about the other side and shameless dumbing down of issues.

In other words, which party is guilty of crossing that line first and destroying American political, intellectual, moral civil discourse?

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