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"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind, it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind swept, God blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace - a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors, and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. "
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"And now I stand proudly with the Republican party that waits for hundreds of thousands of immigrants to follow the DACA program in establishing themselves in this country, and cruelly pulls the rug out from under them on a week's notice. Because of their extraordinarily vulnerable status, these hopefuls are doubly penalized by this Republican sucker punch. Proud and God blessed, people, proud and God blessed!"
Okay, I made that quote up, but really, isn't that the gist of what the Party of Reagan has just done?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,714 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)SUCKED
trotsky
(49,533 posts)He laid the groundwork for what the modern Republican party is all about.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)He was a racist who appealed to racists, with his talk of welfare queens and lazy young bucks, and starting his campaign in Mississippi. He was simply a more polite version of Donald Trump with the same greed and lack of principle.