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In a 1960 letter to Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan accused JFK of being a Marxist and likened contemporary liberalism to Hitler's "State Socialism." 20 years later, he was elected President. How did Reagan's views go from being disreputable in "respectable" circles to becoming the conventional wisdom?

by /u/ProgressIsAMyth in /r/AskHistorians

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