Ronald Reagan

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• 4/14/19
  

  How did President Reagan Deal with Violent Radicals In His Own Party?

  by Jeffrey Kaplan

  Trump's reaction to the tragedy in New Zealand and the series of domestic church and synagogue shootings bring to mind an earlier day and a very different president.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/11/19
  

  ‘Not a racist bone in his body’: The origins of the default defense against racism

  by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer

  The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

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• SOURCE: Forbes
  2/26/19
  

  John Komlos Argues Ronald Reagan's 1981 Tax Cut Led To Trumpism

  His most depressing observation is that we may be stuck in a downward spiral.

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• 2/3/19
  

  Why Elliott Abrams is the Right Man for the Job in Venezuela

  by Teresa Meade

  His career stretches back through some of the most sordid instances of US intervention and brutality.

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• 1/22/19
  

  What Does William Barr Have to Do With Iran Contra?

  by Jeffrey J. Matthews

  And what it means for George H.W. Bush's legacy. 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  1/18/19
  

  Why Reagan's 'Star Wars' Defense Plan Remained Science Fiction

  Despite criticisms from politicians, many scientists and others that the SDI was impractical, expensive and dangerous, the concept was developed during a frightening era.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  7-3-18
  

  A Conservative Group Is Using Ronald Reagan to Attack President Trump's Immigration Policies

  The ad, paid for by the Becoming American Initiative, uses audio of a Reagan speech in which he praised immigrants and their contributions to American society, along with footage and photographs of the Statue of Liberty and various immigrants through the years.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  7-2-18
  

  Like Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan tried to keep out asylum seekers

  by Carly Goodman

  Activists thwarted him.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-7-18
  

  Trump’s treatment of Canada is another reminder that he’s nothing like Reagan

  by Fred Hiatt

  The abject willingness of Republican politicians to discard their supposed fidelity to Reaganite principles has become so familiar in the Trump era that we hardly notice any longer.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  6-8-18
  

  Snopes: Did Ronald Reagan Warn Against “demagogues" Willing to Declare a Trade War Against America’s Friends?

  The answer is yes.

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• 5-30-18
  

  30 Years Ago This Week Ronald Reagan Did Something No One Could Have Expected Years Earlier

  by David Foglesong

  He cut a deal with Russia. How he did it is worth remembering.

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• 5/27/18
  

  The Year The World Almost Blew Up – And Nobody Noticed

  by Taylor Downing

  It was 1983 and the Soviets nearly ordered a full pre-emptive nuclear strike against the US and Western Europe.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-2-18
  

  Before Trump’s wild shifts on the NRA, Ronald Reagan took on the gun lobby

  On May 3, 1994, Ronald Reagan and two other former presidents sent a letter to House members, urging them to support a controversial ban on lethal, military-style assault weapons.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  3-5-18
  

  Who Does She Stand For?

  by Paul A. Kramer

  As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.

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• SOURCE: Facebook
  3-1-18
  

  America has been in an abusive relationship with the GOP since 1980

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  The GOP moved so far into a fantasy world that a TV reality show host, a conman, became its leader.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-22-18
  

  Reagan was the Gipper. Trump is the grifter.

  by Max Boot

  During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump acolytes claimed that he was the second coming of Ronald Reagan. A perfectly plausible proposition, if you know nothing about Reagan or Trump.

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• SOURCE: The Los Angeles Times
  12-5-17
  

  The evangelical slippery slope, from Ronald Reagan to Roy Moore

  by Randall Balmer

  After Reagan (who was divorced) evangelicals stopped talking about divorce.  After Trump and Roy Moore they can’t talk about sexual assault. 

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• 10-28-17
  

  Trump’s Racking Up the Worst Record on the Environment Since Reagan

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Case in point: His attempt to roll back national monuments created by Barack Obama.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  9-2-17
  

  The Preacher Whose Statue Was Booted for Reagan

  by Gil Troy

  A decade ago, the anti-slavery preacher Thomas Starr King was removed from the Capitol and replaced by Ronald Reagan. Maybe his statue should be placed in a certain white house.

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• SOURCE: FiveThirtyEight
  5-16-17
  

  Even The Biggest Scandals Can’t Kill Party Loyalty

  The idea that at some point party loyalty goes out the window and politicians become nonpartisan statesmen doesn’t hold up historically.