Edited sentence: Fortunately for ethnic minorities, they were somewhat better protected in the United States than in Europe, which had witnessed more pogroms than any other part of the world.Nearing the final stages of Alzheimers' disease, Reagan's handlers served him up to the voters as President of the United States.Reagan's rise from pure ham to pure power bears resemblance to the promotion of former house painter, Adolph Hitler, in Germany.Ronald Reagan was a man best known at the time of his ascendancy to power as a 2nd rate actor who had turned to selling a cleansing agent called, "Twenty Mule Team Borax", along with vacuum cleaners, cars, and incandescent light bulbs in television commercials, foreshadowing his later efforts to intellectually neuter the California State University system, destroy the boron and lettuce workers' unions, and reaching apogee with the destruction of the American savings and loan institutions