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5. That's exactly right. Roger Ailes knew that to he had to pit the middle class against one another.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 09:34 AM
Jul 2020

He honed his craft while working as a media consultant for Reagan and Nixon. It was easy. He saw the race riots of the '60, and used those to drive a wedge in the middle class. Bigotry and racism were around long before him, he just used it effectively enough that the prejudiced persons of the middle class came to put those issues at the top of their list of importance.

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