Op-Ed: Donald Trump, a true Reagan Republican (via latimesopinion)
The brutal murder of George Floyd has forced Americans to wrestle with the structural racism that undergirds every aspect of this society and economy. The searing news of the disproportionate rates of COVID-19 among Black Americans has added to the urgency of this moment.
Long before Trump descended his golden escalator, promising to “Make America Great Again,” Reagan was the first to use the slogan “Let’s Make America Great Again,” vowing to return America to its past glory before the civil rights movement toppled Jim Crow in the 1960s.Whenever the issue of Reagan’s hostility to civil rights and unpopularity with Black Americans is broached, conservatives leap to Reagan’s defense and stress his apparent lack of personal racism.
These fears were well-founded. After all, Reagan began his political career with his 1966 campaign for California governor by denouncing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, while running radio ads referring to urban areas as “jungles.” Only months after the Watts riots, Reagan made “law and order” and opposition to California’s far-reaching Fair Housing Act the centerpiece of his campaign to oust the liberal incumbent, Pat Brown.
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