• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    Essentially racism as a political platform developed by Nixon’s campaign as a reactionary movement to the Civil Rights movement.

    Jerry Falwell didn’t want his whites-only college to be integrated by mandate, and started the Moral Majority, a voting bloc that didn’t care how crooked a candidate was (or worked against their interests) so long as they were anti-abortion-access. And this helped Reagan win by a landslide in 1980.

    And as many history analyses will show you, Reagan was the beginning of the end of the United States by an uncountable number of different metrics.