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FortuneCookie posted...

I think accusing Ronald Reagan of white supremacy is a stretch. I've no doubt he had racist tendencies, but I don't think you can really make a Nazi out of him.

That doesn't invalidate everything in this article, but it definitely feels more like satisfying a personal grudge rather than going for total accuracy. "If your economic policies disenfranchise people disproportionately, you're a white supremacist."

That's like trying to make anyone who purchases a foreign car out to undermine America's work ethic or some similar nonsense.

Reagan was something else. He wasn't a out and out swastika tattoo white supremacist but his intentions were known. He began his 1980 campaign in Neshoba County Mississippi and gave a states rights speech there. What's the issue about Neshoba County? It was the site where three young civil rights workers were slain in 1964.

Reagan knew how to play to his audience by putting a more genteel face on it, as opposed to the George Wallace way.

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