Tag: Reagan

Reagan started the fascist christian conservative movement

Ron Rabatsky @ExposingALEC
A Constitutional Convention could codify the oligarchy in America
#ALEC, #CNP, #KochNetwork, #NoConCon, #China #Cannabis

Resist the Privatization of America

Ron Rabatsky @ExposingALEC
Right-wing populism is based upon prejudice, bigotry, racism, demonization, scapegoating, and conspiracy theories aimed at the governing elite. Trump has used all of these devices and psychological weapons to vanquish his political rivals and to arouse rage in his supporters.

We also know from George Lakoff that the family model of the right-wing is the strict father model which is based on authority, obedience, discipline, and punishment. This is consistent with the extreme rightward turn of the Republican Party.

How “4th Generation Warfare” helps to explain the rise of Donald Trump  what it reveals about Donald Trump’s connections to the most extreme elements of the American right-wing.
video https://www.salon.com/2016/07/05/how_4th_generation_warfare_helps_to_explain_the_rise_of_donald_trump/

The christian conservative movement got it’s start with Ronald Reagan asking “what is it that we as Americans really want?” Hint: he wants to make something great again…
video https://mobile.twitter.com/ExposingALEC/status/1361146655228239872

In this clip, @anelsona talks about Paul Weyrich, the founding of the Council for National Policy #CNP and how christian fundamentalists, financial conservatives, foundations, and financiers attached themselves to Reagan, who cut a deal with them…
video https://mobile.twitter.com/ExposingALEC/status/1361146698102435840

“No limits on corporations. No limits on individuals. Unlimited independent spending by PACs or other nonprofits. The result: Big money corrupts our elections.”

Libertarians Suck

The Supreme Court’s majority reconvenes its assault on democracy https://washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/10/04/supreme-court-voting-rights-act-minority-rule/ we need an independent inquiry to detail how right-wing justices have subverted our democracy, so we can determine what can be done to save it.

Fox News Rupert Murdoch secret Deal with Reagan, Cohn

WHY CAN’T WE GET RID OF FOX NEWS?

Both Cohn and Reagan got their starts in politics during the anti-communist purges in the 1950s, Cohn as Sen. Joe McCarthy’s chief counsel and Reagan as a witness against alleged communists in Hollywood.

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1983 Roy Cohn helps install Maryanne Trump in New Jersey court
Sometime in the summer of 1983, Maryanne Trump Barry asks her brother Donald for a favor: see if Roy Cohn can pull President Reagan’s ear and nominate me for a federal judgeship.
Cohn makes a phone call to Attorney General Ed Meese, and Reagan calls Maryanne on September 13. Maryanne is on the U.S. District Court in New Jersey by the end of October, and Donald Trump has political influence in the state where he’s building casinos.

May 23, 2008 The Dirty Trickster
Campaign tips from the man who has done it all. Jeffrey Toobin

1/28/2015 How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch, the global media mogul who is now a kingmaker in American politics, was brought into those power circles by the infamous lawyer/activist Roy Cohn who arranged Murdoch’s first Oval Office meeting with President Ronald Reagan in 1983, according to documents released by Reagan’s presidential library.
“I had one interest when Tom [Bolan] and I first brought Rupert Murdoch and Governor Reagan together — and that was that at least one major publisher in this country … would become and remain pro-Reagan,” Cohn wrote in a Jan. 27, 1983 letter to senior White House aides Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver. “Mr. Murdoch has performed to the limit up through and including today.”

How Donald Trump and Roy Cohn’s Ruthless Symbiosis Changed America

Rupert Murdoch, corporate media propaganda, and CIA covert ops December 28, 2015
Through Fox News and a vast media empire, Rupert Murdoch wields enormous political clout in the United States, but his entrée into the world of Washington power came from the notorious McCarthyite Roy Cohn who opened the door into Ronald Reagan’s Oval Office, reports Robert Parry.

How Roy Cohn Helped Rupert Murdoch January 28, 2015
Special Report: Through Fox News and a vast media empire, Rupert Murdoch wields enormous political clout in the United States, but his entrée into the world of Washington power came from the notorious McCarthyite Roy Cohn who opened the door into Ronald Reagan’s Oval Office, reports Robert Parry.
Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, Ronald Reagan, Rodger Stone and Rupert Murdoch…and yes, all the way to Trump.

12/29/2017 Trump-Murdoch Lawyer-Mentor Roy Cohn’s Complaint To Reagan Admin Re Murdoch Newspaper Access To Reagan; Mentions Roger Stone-Bill Casey

2017 Netflix documentary GET ME ROGER STONE

 

Jeffrey Epstein, Roy Cohn & Donald Trump: The Back Story
July 28, 2019
Government by Blackmail: Jeffrey Epstein, Trump’s Mentor and the Dark Secrets of the Reagan Era
Cohn was also the attorney and friend of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and, according to New York Magazine, “Whenever Roy wanted a story stopped, item put in, or story exploited, Roy called Murdoch;” and, after Murdoch bought the New York Post, Cohn “wielded the paper as his personal shiv.” According to the late journalist Robert Parry, the friendship between Murdoch and Cohn first began thanks to their mutual support for Israel.

August 18, 2019
Part 1—A History of Roger Stone’s Most Notorious Dirty Tricks By Ali Adair
Donald Trump— Roger Stone— Paul Manafort—Roy Cohn

September 20, 2019
How Roy Cohn’s Shame Made Him – And Trump – Shameless
PJ Grisar

Jul 30, 2021 How Reagan and US agencies made Murdoch a king. His media assets were critical to the Reagan administration’s ‘public perception’ program aimed at winning support for an aggressive policy of ‘regime change’ in Central America.

Cohn’s own homosexuality became publicly known after he underwent treatment for AIDS in the 1980s, leading to his death August 2, 1986 from AIDS.