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Grady Bolding

Jan 15

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How Ronald Reagan Tried (And Failed) To Join The Communist Party

The GOP’s favorite president’s brief flirtation with Communism.

Statue of Ronald Reagan in Budapest, Hungary. Photo byNicolas HIPPERTonUnsplash

Long before he was a Red State political icon, President Ronald Wilson Reagan (R-California) allegedly flirted with a much different sort of “Red” politics — Communism (1).

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