Walter Mondale: Donald Path and Rust Belt

walter mondale: Reagan had done particularly well with those who would come to be known as Reagan Democrats white, working-class voters, particularly in the Rust Belt, whom a New York Times contributor would later describe as blue-collar, ethnic voters, who were drawn to Reagan's messages of economic growth and nationalistic pride, according to Hamilton Spectator. But just like Donald Trump's path to victory, Reagan's was strewn with racial hostilities and prejudicial lies. After Ronald Reagan, a carried 49 states in his devastating defeat of Walter Mondale in 1984, Democrats were whining and moaning, shuffling their feet and scratching their heads. While Trump's tropes involved Mexicans and Muslims and that tired euphemism of disastrous inner cities, Reagan used the welfare queen scare, as far back as his unsuccessful bid for president in 1976. Her tax-free cash income alone has been running 150,000 a year. As I have written before, Reagan explained at nearly every stop that there was a woman in Chicago who used 80 names, 30 addresses, 15 telephone numbers to collect food stamps, Social Security, veterans' benefits for four nonexistent, deceased veteran husbands, as well as welfare. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.