Reagan told Yitzhak Shamir he had personally liberated concentration camps despite spending the entire war in Culver City https://twitter.com/billkristol/status/1357748943837421569
Ronald Reagan was genuinely one of the worst people ever to live and his cult really helps explain Trump
He started his campaign with a speech about states’ rights at the site of the lynching of the freedom riders. He lied about “welfare queens,” kicking off decades of brainpan-measuring from idiot pundits. He visited graves of SS officers. He made Nazi Pat Buchanan his comms guy.
He used secret weapons sales to Ayatollah Khomeini to fund a rape-and-murder spree in Central America by the Contras. CIA-backed units in Honduras carried out assassinations under him. His DoD trained the Atlacatl Battalion that massacred civilians in the Salvadoran Civil War.
Here are his flunkies chortling about AIDS
It’s a real indictment of the legacy press that produced Bill Kristol that Reagan was as wildly popular as he was.
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