Melber: Nixon, Reagan Are 'Foundation of...the Politics of Hate That Has Long Stained America'

During Wednesday's edition of The Beat With Ari Melber, the eponymous host shared some newly released audio from the Nixon Presidential Library featuring then-California Governor Ronald Reagan referring to people from African countries as "monkeys" during a conversation with then-President Nixon. While the "monkeys" comment is indefensible, Melber used the audio as an excuse to smear all Republicans and conservatives as racists. Melber asked "What did Make America Great Again mean then? What does it mean now?" Melber attempted to answer his own questions by describing the MAGA agenda as "the politics of the southern strategy, the attacks on welfare queens by Reagan, the relentless fixation on 'law and order' by Nixon." Melber went on to describe the tapes of Nixon and Reagan and presumably their policies and campaign rhetoric as "the foundation of discrimination and racism and the politics of hate that has long stained America."