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5. Carter to Reagan was just going back in demographic terms

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Fri Nov 22, 2013, 09:56 AM

Nov 2013

Reagan really was offering change. Disastrous change, but many white people wanted to see poor non-whites get hurt and he delivered. And he made the world safe for greed.

Going with Howard's original thought, if an older person is going to try and succeed a younger President from a more recent era, he or she must stand for something clearly different or at least appear to offer a break with the past. I think he's right.

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