This is the absolute fukking truth, if you were to ask any true believer Republican who their patron saint is, they are gonna say Ronny. The same Ron Reagan that flooded the black community with crack cocaine, the same Ronald Reagan that unleashed a hyper form of capitalism on this country like a fukking scourge that is directly responsible for the state of the world today, Ronald Reagan, and his administration, produced the nastiest, most evil mother fukkers, that have served more destruction to this world than any one person in history could ever dream of. So, when we’re the Republicans this “reasonable” party of people that were just a “little” conservative in their beliefs?
Yup, and the precursor to that was Nixon, who started the devastating "war on drugs".
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people,” former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman told Harper’s writer Dan Baum for the April cover story published Tuesday.
“You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities,” Ehrlichman said. “We could arrest their leaders. raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”