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(53,924 posts)written by pat brown (jerry brown's father and governor of california before reagan).
he wrote during the 1975-76 presidential campaign when reagan was trying to beat ford for the republican nomination.
it's been eons since i've read it and i no longer have a copy, but i recall him arguing quite passionately that reagan would be a national disaster of epic proportions.
and he was right.
whatever else reagan did, he built up and set in motion the machine that keeps on giving us ever more concentration of wealth, ever more deregulation, and ever more ridiculous political debate and dynamics.
for all of shrub's damage, he was just playing a role, just following a trail that was blazed by reagan and his crew.
and rmoney would be nothing more or less than another in what i fear may be a long line of presidential disasters.