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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.

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Reagan Redux. But Worse.

DEJA VU

A lot of people have made comparisons between the 1980 wave that elected Ronald Reagan and this year’s election. They are so wrong.

Julian Zelizer, Meg Jacobs | Published Nov 12, 2016

‘Ronald’ Trump: Replay of 1980?

Deja Vu All Over Again?

In memory, Reagan’s victory seems easy and inevitable. It was anything but. And the parallels to today are a little creepy.

Meg Jacobs | Published May 24, 2016

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