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[–] StrayCatFrump@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

Maybe. The Democrats had already spent decades helping to kill the labor movement, build up the carceral state, and rampage across the world in imperial war-making prior to Reagan. So while he may have been a catalyst for further open embrace of reactionary ideology (see: Clinton), I can't quite buy that he was the absolute beginning of it.