Posted on 09/05/2016 10:41:48 PM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's note: Phyllis Schlafly passed away on September 5 at the age of 92. She will be missed.
Donald Trumps surprise visit to Mexico, where he met the Mexican president and discussed the many contentious issues between our two countries, reminds me of President Reagans important trip to Geneva in 1985. Reagan was more than willing to sit down with the Communist leader in an effort to build a personal connection between the two men without sacrificing Americas vital interests in the Cold War.
The 1985 Geneva summit was highly advertised as a potential showdown between Reagan and Gorbachev, the supposedly reasonable new Soviet leader. When it was over, Americans realized that behind Reagans genial affability was a steely determination to protect our country against the threat from Soviet nuclear missiles. Just as todays mainstream media is bent on undermining Trumps call to put Americans first in our dealings with Mexico, the media of the 1980s (led by ABCs Sam Donaldson and CBSs Dan Rather) were overwhelmingly pro-Gorbachev and anti-Reagan in their daily coverage.
Left-wing celebrities from around the world converged on Geneva to support the media narrative that a stubborn President Reagan was refusing to consider Gorbachevs reasonable proposals for world peace. Congresswoman Bella Abzug, actress Jane Alexander and the inevitable Jesse Jackson were giving daily interviews. I led a delegation of 25 distinguished women leaders to Geneva to support Reagan and American nuclear superiority. The media didnt give us much coverage, but President Reagan telephoned me afterwards from the White House to thank me for our support.
Reagan had been elected on a promise to win the Cold War against the Communist forces arrayed against America. Before Reagan, our countrys foreign policy was controlled by men like Henry Kissinger, who thought victory was impossible and that his job, as he famously told Admiral Zumwalt, was to negotiate the most acceptable second-best position for the United States.
After three decades of steady deterioration of Americas place in the world, Trump is the first candidate since Reagan who is comfortable using Reagans vocabulary of winning. Trump has pledged to make America win again, instead of being cheated and outmaneuvered by our adversaries and even our so-called allies. Trumps visit to Mexico recalls Reagans trip to Geneva in other ways, too. At both meetings, there was one signature position on which the American refused to budge.
Reagans no-surrender pledge was his unwavering commitment to the Strategic Defense Initiative, that is, to build and deploy a system to shoot down Soviet nuclear missiles headed for our cities. With Trump, its his rock-solid promise to build an impenetrable physical wall on our southern border. Both Reagans and Trumps signature ideas were purely defensive weapons to which no country could have any legitimate complaint. Reagans SDI was a non-nuclear weapon whose only function was to destroy or deflect incoming nuclear missiles.
Reagan stuck to that non-negotiable position at the summit with Gorbachev the following year in Reykjavik, Iceland. As we now know, thats when Gorby realized he could never win an open competition with the United States, so that his acceptable second-best position was the dissolution of the USSR over the next five years. Likewise, Donald Trumps wall is not a provocative, but a neighborly idea to stop the rampant illegality that harms both nations along the U.S.-Mexico border. With no legitimate objection to erecting a fence, wall or other physical barrier between our two countries, Mexico should be grateful for Trumps leadership and even agree to help pay for it.
The value of a wall begins with stopping murderers and rapists from freely entering and re-entering our country with impunity, as Trump mentioned when he announced the start of his campaign last year, but it doesnt stop there. Felony assault by motor vehicle is another deadly crime that seems to be rampant by illegal aliens driving recklessly without the licenses or insurance that law-abiding Americans take for granted.
The wall would also stop the plague of heroin that has exploded during the last few years of the Obama administration. Deaths from heroin overdoses surpassed deaths from car crashes last year and will hit a new record this year. Most U.S. heroin is delivered by Mexicans working for the drug cartels.
Of course, most Mexican immigrants are not murderers, rapists, drunk drivers or drug dealers. But even the good, hard-working people who come here from south of the border, both legally and illegally, have such low education and skills that they cant survive economically without massive public subsidies to provide for the care, food, shelter, health care, education and welfare of their children.
Voters finally have the opportunity to choose a president who will make America first by securing our border and ending one-sided trade deals that favor foreign workers rather than our own. Trumps strong stance in his meeting with the Mexican president demonstrates that Donald Trump is the choice, not an echo.
May she rest in peace and may the eternal light shine upon her.
Her last post.
Let the #NeverTrumpers continue to lose sight of what’s best for our country.
Trump will win without them.
Worth the read Bump.
RIP Phyllis.
R.I.P great lady. You most certainly will be missed.
Great write up by a great lady, thanks for passing it along.
On Trump going to Mexico:
“Only Nixon can go to China”
(Vulcan proverb)
Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Hillary said COUGH that Trump’s COUGH COUGH visit to COUGH Mexico was COUGH a COUGH disaster.
A fighter for America until the day she died. Trump is good enough for a giant like Phyllis Schlafly but not good enough for the never Trump skidmarks of the world.
Wow. Tears in my eyes.
Why can’t the others see it? I just don’t understand.
Phyllis Schlafly last article!
Trump is the new Reagan we have been hoping would show up.
What a great article. A true patriot to her very last day.
May she rest in peace.
and may the Eternal light shine upon her.
“and may the Eternal light shine upon her.”
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