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Progressive Jones

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12. No GOP President from Reagan forward has been an actual leader, or executive.
Sun May 9, 2021, 11:55 PM
May 2021

They were all puppets doing the bidding of subversive RW organizations. Reagan and the Bushes were working
for PNAC, as someone earlier posted. They also worked for The Heritage Foundation, Big Oil, and similar RW orgs.


Trump was mostly working for Trump, and more radical RW groups -- white nationalists/other racist groups, pseudo-patriots, RW militia groups, and anyone who wanted to buy his time and influence. I don't recall Trump being too much of a Big Oil puppet, and I don't think he's capable of that level of business. He was a cheerleader, but I doubt if he was a player in the Big Oil game, as were the Bushes/Cheney.
Trump opened up public lands for drilling, but that was likely at the request of the GOP, who took their orders from Big Oil. Trump didn't really understand what was going on. He's a so-called "real estate mogul", not an oilman.
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