Assistance Quote by Julianne Malveaux

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour.

— Adam Hochschild

“To great effect, Reagan echoed white frustration in race-neutral terms through implicit racial appeals. His 'color-blind' rhetoric on crime, welfare, taxes, and states' rights…

— Michelle Alexander

“Wallowing in nostalgia for a lost Golden Age ruined by meddling liberal outsiders from Washington and New York, previously a white Southern habit, became…

— Kurt Andersen

President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

— Samantha Power

In the '80s, Ronald Reagan inspired me to become politicized, because I grew up in that era when everything I cared about was under…

— Michael Franti

Ronald Reagan was a dim hack who did horrible damage to almost everything he touched.

— Charlie Pierce

Raised during Reagan, suffered through Clinton

— Andrew Wilkow

There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

— Eugene Jarecki

“Trump burst a bubble that had protected Democrats from the consequences of their actions and opened the ranks of the Republican Party to “people…

— David Horowitz

The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.

— Ben Affleck

I was seeing people of color growing up in my media. I was seeing them in positions of power.

— Winston Duke

Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.

— Jacob Weisberg