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Did Trump Kill Reaganism?
American Conservative ^ | 04/28/16 | Rod Dreher

Posted on 04/28/2016 10:52:33 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper

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1 posted on 04/28/2016 10:52:33 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
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To: winoneforthegipper

Yes.


2 posted on 04/28/2016 10:54:22 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: winoneforthegipper

Another liberal who knows all about us.


3 posted on 04/28/2016 10:54:47 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: winoneforthegipper

Bush I killed Reaganism.


4 posted on 04/28/2016 10:57:05 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: nickcarraway

So u did not read did ya, cruzbait?


5 posted on 04/28/2016 10:57:34 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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To: winoneforthegipper

No, it will be a rebirth.


6 posted on 04/28/2016 10:58:20 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("He's a winner in the process of winning. People like that." Scott Adams)
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To: PAR35

You beat me to it. One man and one man alone killed Reaganism. His name is George H.W. Bush. I will dance and drink beer the day he releases his mortal coil.


7 posted on 04/28/2016 10:58:35 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: winoneforthegipper
If Reaganism is, per the author, defined as neo-conservatism, then yes. However, "Reaganism" is in the eye of the beholder.

From my point of view, Trump exemplifies some of the aspects which made many of us fall in love with what Ronald Reagan represented - Proud to be an American, optimism, a "can do" attitude and the recognition that, to win, on a national and international level - negotiate from a standpoint of strength and from a basis of American exceptionalism.

I would also contend that Reagan was NOT a neo-conservative but many of his poltical "children" are and were.

Trump represents the death of "Bushism" - the elder Bush - namely trying to be a world player, international cop, and overextending the military reach to areas where they shouldn't be involved.

8 posted on 04/28/2016 10:59:48 AM PDT by Solson (The citizen trumps the "party" every time - whether the party likes it or not!)
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To: NonValueAdded

That’s right.

as the author wrote:

Trump didn’t kill Reaganism. He just was the first Republican presidential candidate to notice it was already dead.


9 posted on 04/28/2016 11:00:18 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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Reagan killed Reaganism when he picked Bush I as his VP... hate to break that to everyone, but Reagan himself ensured his revolution would be blunted the second he was out of office with that move.


10 posted on 04/28/2016 11:00:24 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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Life for America has changed a great deal since Reagan. The debt is unsustainable. The ISIS was born and due to reagans amnesty, we have illegals pouring into the country and businesses leaving America in droves. All things Reagan didn’t contend with. We should be so lucky to have it as easy like 1980.


11 posted on 04/28/2016 11:00:53 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: winoneforthegipper

The GOPe killed Reaganism a long time ago. The GOPe is now killing the GOP. Trump represents the base and has the GOPe in a yuuuge panic. And he’s actually rebuilding the Reagan Coalition.


12 posted on 04/28/2016 11:00:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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The is full of sh.., er, um, internal contradictions. For instance, he writes:

grass-roots Republican support for large military commitments in the Middle East has withered ... So it has come to this: A mercantilist isolationist is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination. .

It must be remembered that once Reagan understood the complexities of Lebanan after Khobar towers, we got out. Conservatives support a strong military. Death and destruction in the middle east, however, was a neocon program, not a conservative program.

And I fail to see how someone who is asking our allies to bear their fair burden is an "isolationist."

13 posted on 04/28/2016 11:01:24 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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What a load.. Trump is more and an extension of Reagan in to the current times...Reagan is a pro American policy vs internationalism that is detrimental to the american people


14 posted on 04/28/2016 11:01:26 AM PDT by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: winoneforthegipper
The republican establishment killed it starting about the time pappy Bush took office. The kind of power Reagan could muster with the people over politics was scary bad to the RNC.

When Reagan walked out on the nuclear missile talks in Iceland and just told the pilots to kick the tires and light the fires to get out of the situation, and then got everything he wanted, it was felt nobody should be that effective in government. It's just not complicated enough.

15 posted on 04/28/2016 11:01:34 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: winoneforthegipper

Yes. We are all positivists now.


16 posted on 04/28/2016 11:01:45 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
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To: Jim Robinson

Indeed.


17 posted on 04/28/2016 11:01:55 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper ("If you can't ride two horses at once, you probably shouldn't be in the circus" - SP)
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I agree. Reagan was the right man for the time but his legacy really died with the end of the Cold War, and what better tribute and legacy could there be?

Now Trump is the right man for a different time, actually 5-10 years too late, but we all know who to thank for that. Now that we have him, it’s time to support him in making American Great Again, a goal the Gipper would absolutely support.


18 posted on 04/28/2016 11:02:00 AM PDT by bigbob
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19 posted on 04/28/2016 11:02:49 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: winoneforthegipper

NO! Bush-1 did.


20 posted on 04/28/2016 11:02:50 AM PDT by LibFreeUSA
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