I mean, whenever I read about the Depression, I'm continuously overwhelmed by just how much of a shock to the system it seemed to be. Vietnam, too. And how destabilizing they were to those systems. How do 300,000 people die, more than 3000 a day, and it all goes on?
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I've been thinking about how much of a child of Reaganism Trump is .. Is it possible the only distinction with Reagan is that he was too proximate to those events to approach such language? That the taboo has faded enough, but the underlying value was indistinguishable?
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Reagan signed an immigration amnesty and used generic Ellis Island America language. That's not at all the same underlying values as Trump. And Trump's origins are in those on right who revolted against Reagan on immigration/trade/interventionism (Buchanan etc.).
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said this before, but there is a kind of flip between Reagan and Trump, where the former leveraged anti-blackness to bolster a pro-immigrant message, the latter, xenophobia to bolster an oddly inclusive message towards Black America (at least in his first campaign)
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("oddly inclusive" by GOP standards; in 2016, Trump generally avoided culture of poverty rhetoric, casting disadvantaged Black communities as victims of bad economic policies crafted by corrupt and stupid elites, not their own supposed cultural pathologies)
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