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...POC, migrants, & women on the bottom rung.
Republicanism isn't "conservative policy", it's the Politics of Immiseration, based on bigotry.
Reagan's fake tax revolt defunded any government program that helped these groups. It sought to return government policies to the era where programs only helped whites.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-05-31-mn-14820-story.html