After @DavidCornDC's chapters on Reagan in #AmericanPsychosis, I just think: could he have gotten away with coddling literal Nazis, laying a wreath at an SS cemetery, & cozying up to doomsday evangelicals in the social media era?

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/05/this-day-in-politics-may-5-1985-565776

In #AmericanPsychosis, @DavidCorn shows how the GOP has winked & hugged at right wing extremism for years. In the 60s, Reagan let John Birchers know he was with them with dog whistles to win the CA governorship.

Nixon ordered his DOJ to stay away from charges to hard hat rioters who beat the shit out of college protesters in NYC right after the Kent State shootings.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/hard-hat-riot-1970-pitted-construction-workers-against-anti-war-protestors-180974831/

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Saturday activities:

waking too early & reading #LOTR, "Scouring of the Shire,"

listening to #LoveItOrLeaveIt,

housecleaning to the audiobook of #AmericanPsychosis (@DavidCorn)

hosting friends for dinner.

#PolticsAndProse #DavidCorn author of
#AmericanPsychosis #GOP

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=Cldhrl4zCGw