Haven't watched the fourth installment yet

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But I found the limited series interesting, a good reminder that Donald Trump didn't burst out of a briar patch brand new.

Saint Ronnie was able to package basically the same ideology in more attractive wrappings. But the dog whistling was there, the libertarian 'we don't need no stinking regulations' messaging/policy to comfort corporate interests while breaking the back of unions was at the forefront, and most certainly the attacks on government itself were constant, deliberate.

The whole idea of drowning government in a bathtub, churning distrust of Washington and convincing Americans to vote against their own self-interest was given breath by Reagan and his backers. Because of those people--the shirkers, the Welfare Queens, the chronic whiners, communist sympathizers, etc..

Reagan's wealthy backers, the so-called Kitchen Cabinet, just loved their Ronnie because he was affable, an attractive, down-home front guy for toxic policy. Though Melania is no Nancy Reagan (the power behind the man), I took note of the similarity of slogans:

Be Best vs Just Say No.

The simplistic, useless sentiment is on the same bandwidth. Nancy's penchant for extravagant goods--the addition of $1000 per setting White House china--isn't that far removed from Melania's new tennis courts/pavilion or her need to uproot Jackie Kennedy's rose garden.

But that's my take. I caught Morning Joe yesterday. He and his Republican guests were appalled by the series, called it the worst documentary they'd seen, a political hit job.

All in the angle you view it, I guess.