HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://masto.ai/@Nonilex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Nonilex</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a><br>It makes a nice stiry, doesn't it? <br>Except:<br>In this weeks <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheEconomist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheEconomist</span></a> podcast, the journalists could find no evidence for what your memes imply.</p><p>I think, taking out the "biggest guy in the yard" to cow the others in the cultural war us a good enough reason.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> is merely bringing to completion <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RonaldReagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RonaldReagan</span></a>'s, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RichardNixon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RichardNixon</span></a>'s, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SpiroAgnew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpiroAgnew</span></a>'s brainchild 1) that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RonaldReagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RonaldReagan</span></a> jumpstarted in his 1966 gubernatorial campaign in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a>.2)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/114196317898568767" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1141</span><span class="invisible">96317898568767</span></a></p>