Without "anticommunism" to animate it, the Reagan Right coalition thrashed in a void, eventually gelling into today's "nativism, racial resentment, and media hysteria."

Meanwhile, the Dems under Clinton turned their backs on state-backed programs and towards market-based initiatives, making today's "lopsided, unfair economic gains" inevitable. The #AtariDemocrats of the Clinton years were - in the words of one bitter union organizer - "#CryptoRepublicans."

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