{"id":177624,"date":"2019-07-31T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/31\/clearly-reagan-would-have-supported-trump\/"},"modified":"2019-07-31T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:05:00","slug":"clearly-reagan-would-have-supported-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/07\/31\/clearly-reagan-would-have-supported-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearly, Reagan Would Have Supported Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a conversation with Richard Nixon in 1971, Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, described African UN representatives from as, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/07\/31\/us\/politics\/ronald-reagan-richard-nixon-racist.html\">Those monkeys from those African countries, damn them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I always knew that the Gipper was an enthusiastic supporter of racist and racism, launching the 1980 Presidential campaign with a speech about states rights in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where civil rights activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner were assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>His entire career was about dog whistling to racists.<\/p>\n<p>Now we know that he was a bigot and a racist.<\/p>\n<p>Rot in hell Ronnie, rot in hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a conversation with Richard Nixon in 1971, Ronald Reagan, then governor of California, described African UN representatives from as, &#8220;Those monkeys from those African countries, damn them. I always knew that the Gipper was an enthusiastic supporter of racist and racism, launching the 1980 Presidential campaign with a speech about states rights in Philadelphia, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,389,387,374,398],"class_list":["post-177624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-evil","tag-history","tag-hypocrisy","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}