"I am scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and the Nazi Party," Coretta Scott King said in November 1980. "I'm afraid things are going to blow sky high during this next term," a nursing student said. He's a "nitwit" added a Democrat. "Despite the Democratic panic, Reagan left America richer and safer after two terms." Gil Troy, The New York Times.
Moderator's Note: According to The New York Times, Gil Troy is a professor of history at McGill University and the author of "Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s.”