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Why Donald Trump is Reagan’s heir

21 September 2016

7:33 AM

21 September 2016

7:33 AM

Protesters Demonstrate Against Donald Trump's Visit To Flint MichiganFor the first time in more than 25 years the Republican Party has a legitimate heir to the blue collar conservative electoral appeal of Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon in Donald Trump.

Trump, as Reagan and Nixon did during their time as President, has made it clear that he is not averse to intervening in order to even up the so called free trade playing field and where necessary support manufacturing industries to protect well paid, skilled blue collar jobs. 

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