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"Hi. In Part 2 of our Reagan series, we're looking at how Ronald Reagan's presidency altered how both parties think about politics, why it pushed Democrats to the right, and how Reagan's tactics and racist dog whistling paved the way for the rise of Donald Trump."



Follow up to this one.

Wow... Reagan's campaign slogan really was "Let's Make America Great Again." Holy fuck. Well shit, that just makes MAGA even worse, since it's just a blatant, banal ripoff. So... completely par for the course for Dumbshit Jackass Trump, in other words. (If nothing else, it's so nice to be able to say, for the first time in a while, that I'm too young to remember that shit. Still... it feels like that should have been something I would've heard about before now, even so. Huh...)

Oh, and a whole bunch of other really terrible, shitty things were discussed in the above video, too.
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"Hi. Today we're looking at America's 40th president – Teflon Ron, 'ol Dutchy, the Gipper himself – Ronald Reagan, and how nearly everything bad in the U.S. today can be traced back to something he did and/or said."



Okay, ignoring all the "pretending to get increasingly 'annoyed' by the 'joke' (i.e. the BttF clip) that we're choosing to run into the ground this time" thing and the really bizarre, ongoing "corn" thing (without which the video would probably be at least 10 minutes shorter), this was a pretty good video. And, hey, at least Warmbo wasn't in this one.

So yeah, Ronald Reagan was a shitty president and just a pretty shitty dude all around, too. Not quite to the nadir of Donald Trump, of course, but still pretty low down there. This isn't really news to anyone who has paid attention at all to the past 40 years. Basically, Reagan and his presidency and the effect it had on everything that came after are who and what made "President Trump" possible. I guess the real take away from this is that we should maybe never again elect a man with *onald in his first name for the job of President. Starting right now.

(Oh, and there's apparently going to be a "part 2" to this. Hmm.)

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