What the Final Stage of Reaganism Looks Like

8 min readDec 16, 2022

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The question today is whether we as a nation and a people will recover from it, or if it will, as Reagan promised, destroy the American experiment of pluralistic liberal democracy

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Back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in and implicitly promised to destroy our…

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