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Podcast: The Cosmopolitan
Episode: Ronald Reagan’s Make-Believe
Description: Podcast: The LRB Podcast (LS 55 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Ronald Reagan’s Make-BelievePub date: 2025-01-23Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRonald Reagan, as Jackson Lears wrote recently in the LRB, was a ‘telegenic demagogue’ whose ‘emotional appeal was built on white people’s racism’. His presidency left the United States a far more unequal place at home, with a renewed commitment to deadly imperial adventures abroad. Yet he had a gift for making up stories that ‘made America feel good about itself again’. On...