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A lot of people have made comparisons between the 1980 wave that elected Ronald Reagan and this year’s election. They are so wrong.
Meg Jacobs is a Research Scholar at Princeton University and author of Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s She tweets at @MegJacobs100.
A lot of people have made comparisons between the 1980 wave that elected Ronald Reagan and this year’s election. They are so wrong.
In memory, Reagan’s victory seems easy and inevitable. It was anything but. And the parallels to today are a little creepy.