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In reply to the discussion: It started with Reagan, not Trump [View all]mwb970
(11,368 posts)113. I had assumed that Reagan would always remain the worst president of my lifetime.
BOY was I wrong!!
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Fascism's Origins: Abrahamic Blood Cults Are The Earliest Recorded Instance I'm Aware Of
MayReasonRule
Sep 2023
#49
Yup, gingrich comes to mind first. He turned politics into a trumpfest even before trump
SouthernDem4ever
Sep 2023
#23
Gingrich accelerated politics as total war, not just win but destroy the opposition, anything goes.
betsuni
Sep 2023
#5
Reads like a grade school primer on how to be awful for your country while getting richer.
jaxexpat
Sep 2023
#84
His first stop after the convention in San Diego was Philadelphia Mississippi
underpants
Sep 2023
#13
Raygun was being used as a GOP talking head back in the 1960s when he was railing against
4lbs
Sep 2023
#16
Reagan said "Govt. Is the problem" at the Inaugural Address in Wash., DC Jan. 1981.
appalachiablue
Sep 2023
#50
Correct, a call to arms for all out war on liberal democracy, based on a false 'attack'
appalachiablue
Sep 2023
#72
Nixon preceded Reagan; The Dulles Brothers were Nixon contemporaries; and so on and so on . . .
NBachers
Sep 2023
#24
Other players who have been important to the progression of Republican dystopia are Rupert
Lonestarblue
Sep 2023
#34
it started with trickey dick.then all ahead full. raygun was the big one though
AllaN01Bear
Sep 2023
#35
When people say the right-wing Senators today are the most extreme ever, I call BS
Polybius
Sep 2023
#56
It all started when women and minorities started advocating for equal rights.
Pacifist Patriot
Sep 2023
#86
Reagan and his ilk focused the project, but it has been going on decades before.
Caliman73
Sep 2023
#89
Last night Michael Steele was trying to admonish the candidates over Reagan
SleeplessinSoCal
Sep 2023
#90
I had assumed that Reagan would always remain the worst president of my lifetime.
mwb970
Sep 2023
#113