watch. the perfect example of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working class americans against brown and black working class americans in order to just screw over all working class americans. it s reaganism in the 80s when he started talking about welfare queen. painting this photo, painting this recentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were sucked on by our country. let s go back, rewrite the wrongs of yesterday or relitigate them. she talked about fdr being a racist. i don t know how this is helpful. you know, you can get mired in the political argument about what really happened in the 80s, particularly with the economy.
uh-oh! wanting her usual fiery attack from the status quo, cohen capitalism irredeemable, and suggesting that ronald reagan pushed racist policies. watch. i think a perfect example of how special interest and the powerful have pitted white working-class americans against brown and black working-class americans in order to just screw over all working-class american americans. reaganism in the 80s, when he started talking about welfare queens, he s painting this photo. this really resentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing, that where soccer player on our country speak to the cosponsor of the green new also calling fdr s iconic new deal racist, and dismissing political moderates.
americans [applause] is reaganism in the 80s when he started talking about welfare queens. he s painting this really resentful vision of, essentially, black women who were doing nothing that were sucks on our country. when someone s talking about our core, it s like, oh, this is radical. but this isn t radical, this is what we ve always been. i think all these things sound radical compared to where we are, but where we are is not a good thing. and this idea of, like, 10% better from garbage [laughter] shouldn t be what we settle for. ed: what about the beginning where she s saying that, basically, reagan was a racist, i m not really going to back that up with anything, or moderator s not going to challenge me and, oh, by the way, that led to all working people, she says, getting screwed. now, i m not going to argue that
1980, it introduced a way in which this country has operated in terms of privatization, deregulation, eroding the social safety net, the tax code. all of these things have functioned as oxygen since reagan s election. they have come into view as the substance of the problem of the country. democrats, whoever is running i don t want them talking about likability. i want them to hammer home the contradictions at the heart of reaganism. it s not just trumpism. we have an opening. california is starting out the blocks helping us do that. iowa and new hampshire, not so much. california is an increasing fascinating state and orange county. a whole state is going to be much more of a democratic strong hold. i will be fascinating to see how much turns into policy or whether california remains the atm for the big political parties to raise money and
even after he was president. i mean, there s no one in republican history during my lifetime has been quoted more than ronald reagan by current republicans. even after he was president they ve all stopped that now. you notice how you get up and you can watch your senate speech with republicans. you can watch your campaign speech with republicans. house republicans. there s no quoting of reagan anymore. donald trump destroyed ronald reagan. and destroyed ronald reagan s power even after holding office and even after death in the republican party. which was an extraordinary power that ronald reagan held for a long time. and you re talking about the power of example? of his ideas. republicans were living under reaganism for a few decades. decad decades. they were living under republican principles that reagan lived by. and they were narrowing them all the time. i mean, reagan, for example, was