{"id":198394,"date":"2007-11-12T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/12\/krugman-nails-reagan-on-racism\/"},"modified":"2007-11-12T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T05:25:00","slug":"krugman-nails-reagan-on-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/11\/12\/krugman-nails-reagan-on-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Krugman Nails Reagan on Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/10\/innocent-mistakes\/\">very similar to Marc Anthony&#8217;s speech in Shakespeare&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Julius Caesar<\/span><\/a>, &#8220;So are they all, all honorable men&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Was Reagan a racist?  We&#8217;ll never know.  He was at his core a cypher to almost everyone around him.  That being said, it&#8217;s clear from his <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">actions<\/span> that he actively and aggressively courted racists for political gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s very similar to Marc Anthony&#8217;s speech in Shakespeare&#8217;s Julius Caesar, &#8220;So are they all, all honorable men&#8221;. Was Reagan a racist? We&#8217;ll never know. He was at his core a cypher to almost everyone around him. That being said, it&#8217;s clear from his actions that he actively and aggressively courted racists for political gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,978,1001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-politics","category-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198394"}],"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=198394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}