Watching The Reagans Part II on Showtime & what pops up at the end? Cronkite mocking Biden.

[Drunken Irishman]

It was an interesting scene. I know they put it in there because of what has just happened. But anyway, if you haven't watched The Reagans on Showtime, do. It's a pretty damn good look at just how manipulative Nancy and Ronald were. Chapter II mostly focuses on Reagan's rightwing march and his play for the racist vote.

It ends with Election Night 1980 on CBS discussing his landslide.

Cronkite turns to the panel and asks who the Democrats look to now. Obviously since the party is in shatters.

Jeff Greenfield (yes, the guy who's still around), mentions Joe Biden as a young, impressive senator from Delaware.

Cronkite then says, "Yeah. Okay." and laughs at the thought.

40 years later and here we are.

[Solly Mack]

1. It took me three tries to watch Part 2.

From the opening, seeing a young Trent Lott brought those years back to me with the force of a kick in the stomach.

Finally watched it all. Sickening. All of it came back in a rush.

Caught the Biden remark. Said guess Joe got the last laugh.

[Drunken Irishman]

3. Really shows there isn't a lick of difference between Trump and Reagan.

And every right-winger out there and their revisionist history who pretends Reagan would be appalled with Trump are lying. Trump's suburban attack throughout the 2020 campaign was ripped right from the Reagan playbook.

It's a shame Jimmy Carter had to lose to that man.

[Solly Mack]

4. Exactly. Reagan was movies. Trump reality TV. Both racist demagogues. Both

with the bullshit narrative about America and the feel-good claptrap. Both unstable.

Neither had any substance. Both horrible human beings.

[Captain Zero]

5. Reagan was mostly 'B' movies and seldom a lead

Unless his supporting cast was chimpanzees.

[Solly Mack]

7. True. But I was speaking more to their venues of birth. Scripted from movies. Scripted from TV.

Reagan would give speeches filled with the blurring of what actually happened verses some movie of what Reagan claimed happened.

His vision of America that came from multiple movie collages pressed together to form a patriotic codswallop narrative. Sweeping, grandiose, big screen flash.


But he spoke like it actually happened.

Trump is all about optics and scripts his performances like a Reality TV show. Designed to get maximum response from maximum drama. All done in only an hour - with new episodes coming every week. His tweets were like commercials for his next episode.

[Buckeyeblue]

12. As bad as Trump is, Reagan probably did more lasting damage to the country.

[Cha]

2. lol Yeah, who Knew!!

I miss Cronkite, though.

[BootinUp]

6. Ignorance is probably bliss. nt

[demosincebirth]

8. Reagan was president of SAG, then became union buster. Screw him!

[New Breed Leader]

9. Ain't that a bitch?

Smh

[a kennedy]

10. Yup, I hear the name Reagan, and immediately get pissed off for what he did to the

air traffic controllers, AND the end of unions as we knew them. Hated him ever since. The downfall of the union?? A direct result of this piece of garbage. Ugh.

[tetedur]

11. He should have been impeached you know for that little thing Iran-Contra. . . .

Selling arms for hostages, subverting Congress, financing a war, drug importation etc.