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The Reagans Clip Draws Parallels Between Coded Racism of Reagan and Trump
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Next week's second episode of the Showtime documentary series The Reagans explores the "concerted effort to undermine the Civil Rights movement" with coded language that advanced agendas of racism while providing plausible deniability. If that sounds familiar, you can see in this clip that Donald Trump poaching Ronald Reagan's slogan "Make America Great Again" was likely no accident.
The Reagans airs Sundays at 8:00 PM ET on Showtime.
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TOPICS: The Reagans (2020 docuseries), Showtime, Ronald Reagan, Ron Reagan Jr.
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