"Republicans had finally found their answer to the New Deal"
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American crossroads: Reagan, Trump and the devil down south. "How the Republican party’s dog-whistle appeal to racism, refined by Richard Nixon and perfected by Ronald Reagan, led inexorably to Donald Trump."
Reagan, Trump and the Racist Ghost of George Wallace
Donald Trump and the Rise of the New Dixiecrats: It’s not just the Republican fringe that loves Trump—his appeal to white working-class Democrats could shake up the general election.
The Roots of Donald Trump's Candidacy Lie in a South Carolina Cemetery: Searching for the soul of South Carolina politics—and the modern Republican Party.
Reagan, Trump and the Racist Ghost of George Wallace
Donald Trump and the Rise of the New Dixiecrats: It’s not just the Republican fringe that loves Trump—his appeal to white working-class Democrats could shake up the general election.
The Roots of Donald Trump's Candidacy Lie in a South Carolina Cemetery: Searching for the soul of South Carolina politics—and the modern Republican Party.
This post was deleted for the following reason: I appreciate the effort and reasoning you put into this, but I do think it'd better to just stick to the sundry Trump-relevant threads we have open already. -- cortex
This lengthy Vanity Fair article from 1990 about Donald and Ivana floating across my twitter somehow yesterday. It's interesting reading it, because the Donald portrayed in that article is exactly the Donald we have today. But that article has a lot of facts and fact-checking going on from 25 years ago, so it gives a nice background. Worthwhile read, IMO.
posted by hippybear at 2:55 PM on March 6, 2016 [3 favorites]
posted by hippybear at 2:55 PM on March 6, 2016 [3 favorites]
I'd like to highlight a passage about Ronald Reagan's 1980 Neshoba County speech:
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:01 PM on March 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
Why would Reagan, fresh off the Republican convention with his party’s nomination in hand, travel to a remote, rural county in a poor southern state that possessed all of seven piddly electoral votes? ... And that’s where Reagan went to speak the words “I believe in states’ rights”, in his first appearance as the Republican nominee. These days we know it as dog-whistle politics, that coded language Lee Atwater was talking about. Reagan did not, by the way, mention Chaney, Schwerner or Goodman, whose bodies had been found a few miles away. That screaming silence, that was a dog whistle too, and to think that Reagan didn’t know what he was doing is to consign him to the ranks of the epically stupid. He’d campaigned for Goldwater. He was a two-term governor of California, and a veteran of national politics. The Neshoba County speech stands as one of the true masterpieces of the Southern Strategy, a dog whistle that blew out the eardrums of every racist reactionary within 3,000 miles.As ye sow, so shall ye Trump.
posted by MonkeyToes at 3:01 PM on March 6, 2016 [1 favorite]
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