{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Y'know, I used to think all the '80s stuff calling Reagan a Nazi was just proof of how wacky the left'll get if you let them,...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/671124241095229440/", "html": "<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"/post/671121524723499009/\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Y'know, I used to think all the &lsquo;80s stuff calling Reagan a Nazi was just proof of how wacky the left&rsquo;ll get if you let them, but in fairness he <b>did</b> bring about a palingenetic renewal where they had been gearing up for a liberatory moment by suppressing labor power, boosting the industrial economy through armaments spending and taking a more belligerent foreign policy to crack open rival-empire markets, revalorizing nonurban petty bourgeoisie and the iconically traditional family, and shifting law and policy to concentrate a national minority coming off early signs of inclusion into degraded and stigmatized &ldquo;ghettoes&rdquo;</p></blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"npf_indented\"><p><a class=\"tumblelog\" href=\"https://tmblr.co/MbkmHDbL-wUaJfahId-mjBA\" target=\"_blank\">@apoliticalfemdommunist</a> said: And supported foreign paramilitary death squads.  Don\u2019t forget the paramilitary death squads!</p></blockquote><p>Yes, there was the sponsoring of hemispheric anticommunist regimes. Guards against runaway inflation, too!</p>"}