Reply #40: There is more to Reagan and his transformation

[nadinbrzezinski]

his second wife's dad, he was very much a member of the core Republican Party. Until that moment Ronnie was a different man. It is said that him and his future father and law had a man to man talk on how things really work.

Been readying on Bridges, a labor leader in San Fran, and it is amazing how even under FDR there was a fear of the red scare. Of course that goes all the way back to before Jacksonian Democracy and the fear of the moneyed elites from the lumpen proletariat. (I am paraphrasing Carlton and his book on the history of labor published in 1920).

As to what Reagan did, not gonna justify it, but I think part of our collective problem is that Americans in general do not know about their own history. So all sounds new and it is easy to miss what the patterns of history are. (And why I have undertaken this huge project)