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Forgotten: How the People of One Pennsylvania County Elected Donald Trump and Changed America, by Ben Bradlee

The county voted for Jimmy Carter in 1976, but along with the rest of the nation, it tired of him by 1980 and elected Ronald Reagan. Thus began a decade of Republican presidential dominance in the county as thousands of Reagan Democrats crossed over to reelect Reagan in 1984, and to vote for George H. W. Bush in 1988, in hopes that the GOP could reverse the pattern of industrial decline and urban decay that had taken hold in the county.

Yeah, race-baiting had no influence on this whatsoever, right?

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02 May 21 · Flag

Kristy

I don’t think people had any idea how urban decay could be reversed or that the industrial revolution was completely over. Maybe they didn’t want to see it. Of course, corporations themselves had a hu…

02 May 21 · Flag

Will Byrnes

Yep. Also, the media reveled in keeping the Iranian hostage crisis on the air non-stop, which did not help. And neither did Reagan, who was actively working with the Iranians to make sure that no one …

02 May 21 · Flag

Kristy

The media is absolutely complicit in distracting people from important issues. It is bizarre that news is now so politically divided. I watch the CBC in Canada, which is a network has government fundi…

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