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Just finished episode 3 of The Kingmakers, which covers the Reagan presidency and the Iran-Contra scandal;
https://www.levernews.com/the-return-of-the-kingmakers-post/
Kingmakers is season 2 of @thelever's excellent political history podcast The Master Plan. It's exhaustively researched and professionally produced by audience-funded journalists, and I found it an insightful and enjoyable listen.
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"Now it may be comforting to tell yourself that this is all new, and sudden, and just the product of a reality TV star president, and a historically shitty opposition party. But I have some bad news for you. This isn't new, at all, and it's not an anomaly.
This is more of a culmination, or really, a well-planned coronation, that's been a long time in the making."
https://www.levernews.com/the-kingmakers-ep-1-after-the-fall-of-the-imperial-president/