Melber: Nixon, Reagan Are ‘Foundation of…the Politics of Hate That Has Long Stained America’
1st August 2019
During Wednesday’s edition of The Beat With Ari Melber, the eponymous host shared some “new information and context for President Trump’s race-baiting rhetoric and discriminatory policies.” This “new information” came in the form of indefensible comments from then-California governor and future President Ronald Reagan and the then-President Richard Nixon, which Melber gleefully used as a lynchpin to attack Republicans and conservatives as racist.
EXCEPT THAT Trump isn’t really a conservative — ask anybody at National Review — and isn’t really even a Republican — ask Mitt Romney.
Other than that, he’s nailed it.