Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Reagan Realignment: How Ronald Reagan Changed The Game And Not For The Better | Diane Winston | TMR" video.

Nixon was the youngest member of the house un-American Activities Commission, and ran a brutal red scare campaign against his opponent for the California senate race. FDR voting, union leader, Reagan had been supporting Nixon's opponent, until Reagan and Nixon had some kind of meeting, when someone convinced Reagan to go to a Nixon rally. Reagan then dropped his support of Nixon's opponent, and started taking the oath to crazytown. On top of the extreme anti-socialists, Nixon then went after the racist vote, in 1972. He was the one who started collecting all the nuts into one basket, including Reagan.
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