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sheshe2

(83,746 posts) Wed Nov 6, 2019, 10:15 PM Nov 2019

Take Nixon, add...

Take Nixon, add climate denial, add pedophilia, add child concentration camps, add sexual assault, add rape, add nepotism, add white supremacy, add murder cover-ups, add treason, add genocide, add Twitter, subtract 97 IQ points, and you have Trump today. - Andrea Junker

http://all-hat-no-cattle.blogspot.com/2019/11/house-to-hold-public-impeachment.html

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Take Nixon, add... (Original Post) sheshe2 Nov 2019 OP

Much the same could also be said of Reagan. guillaumeb Nov 2019 #1

k and r nt Stuart G Nov 2019 #2

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)

1. Much the same could also be said of Reagan.

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Wed Nov 6, 2019, 10:25 PM

Nov 2019

Nixon initiated the Southern strategy that inspired the GOP to run on the politics of racism and white resentment and that turned the American South to a solidly GOP base.

Reagan refined that message of racial resentment.

Trump ignores the coded language.

Stuart G

(38,419 posts)

2. k and r nt

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Wed Nov 6, 2019, 11:22 PM

Nov 2019

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