[Wonder Warthog]

"It was the now anti-Russian Left that opposed fracking, off shore drilling, and natural gas exports, tools that will lessen Russian and Iranian leverage over Europe"

True, but it goes back much further than that, and has its roots in Soviet Union era nuclear weapons development. The USSR clandestinely funded the "anti-nuclear movement" opposing both the development of weaponry and peaceful nuclear energy by the USA. That "zeitgeist" survived the disintegration of the USSR and lives on today as the "green movement".

[Wallace T.]

Fortunately for us, Reagan accelerated American military development and forced the Soviets into an arms race they could not sustain, leading to the collapse of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact. As you point out, the Soviets helped fund the anti-nuclear movement. Soros and other foundation money have supplanted the funds in our time.

Trump's task in fighting the domestic Left and Muslim terrorism is several orders of magnitude greater than what Reagan faced. Instead of four years of Carter and the aftermath of Watergate. Trump is fighting 28 years of uniparty misrule under the Bushes, Clinton, and Obama.