AOC Claims Ronald Reagan Was Racist and Divided Americans

Newly-elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Coretz implied beloved former President Ronald Reagan was a “racist” who tried to divide America.

 Breitbart reported that Ocasio-Cortez said former President Ronald Reagan used “racist,” caricatures to pit “white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans.”

Ocasio-Cortez said, “One perfect example, I think a perfect example of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans in order to just screw over all working-class Americans, is Reaganism in the ’80s when he started talking about welfare queens.”

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggests former President Ronald Reagan was a racist and claims he "pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans to screw over all working-class Americans" pic.twitter.com/oxM2QPRgrB

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  From The Blaze

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attacked former President Ronald Reagan over the weekend, claiming his policies are a “perfect example” of how powerful people “screw over all working-class Americans.”

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While speaking at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas, Ocasio-Cortez defended her far-left progressive values. In doing so, Ocasio-Cortez “criticized the treatment of minorities throughout American history,” according to Fox News.

 The freshman lawmaker then listed two specific policies she believes contributed to a toxic environment for minorities: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and Reagan’s economic policies, which are widely praised today.

“One perfect example, I think a perfect example, of how special interests and the powerful have pitted white working-class Americans against brown and black working-class Americans in order to just screw over all working-class Americans, is Reaganism in the ’80s when he started talking about welfare queens,” Ocaiso-Cortez said.

 “So you think about this image of welfare queens and what he was really trying to talk about was … this like really resentful vision of essentially black women who were doing nothing that were ‘sucks’ on our country,” she continued.

“And it’s this whole tragedy of the commons type of thinking where it’s like because this one specific group of people, that you are already kind of subconsciously primed to resent, you give them a different reason that’s not explicit racism but still rooted in a racist caricature,” she went on to say. “It gives people a logical reason, a ‘logical’ reason to say, ‘oh yeah, no, toss out the whole social safety net.'”