Posted on 08/28/2023 9:52:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
They weren’t? Why did John Anderson mount a 3rd party run against him? Or the Iran/Contra investigations?
What, exactly, did Trump do?
You’re bigly out in left field.
Iran Contra investigation was chump change compared to what they’re doing to Trump.
Trump is trying to run the clock so he might be able to pardon himself. What if Joe beats him to the punch? What if Joe pardons himself & Hunter? You happy with that? That’s what you’re fighting for.
“Today, when I look at the state of politics, I want to yell, “Ronald Reagan, where are you?!” “
Oh he is there. With every conservative defeat.
Open borders, de-industrialization, “free trade”, financialization, NeoCon wars, immigrant worship, ML King Holiday, Wall Street Greed financial bubbles... they all get traced back to Reagan.
I smell the stench of liberal establishment Republican aka Uniparty outrage. I can hear it now: he’s uncouth, he’s nasty, he’s not a gentleman etc... all the contemptuous way they really feel about their base.
There was no one on stage that came close to Reagan, they were more akin to being Bush clones. Trump is no Reagan and Reagan no Trump, but-but, Trump actually implemented more conservatives policies than any Republican president since Reagan. Since Reagan all the Republican campaign promises have been nothing more than pablum for their base. They had no intentions of ever implementing any of them and didn’t. Trump did and that is another reason the establishment hated his guts, it showed them for the liars they really are.
I was a young child in 1980, but I remember exactly what you are saying. I couldn't put a finger on it then, but in adulthood, I realized it was pure MSM political smears. Its no different from what they did to Trump, although with Trump, the MSM and their deep-state controllers gave up any pretense of neutrality or respect.
Reagan was from an era where the greatest threats were external and even his strongest critic Democrats loved the country, just had bad ideas about policy. I don’t think he would have been able to get elected, much less govern effectively in today’s environment.
Reagan was a great guy and was the man for his time.
Trump is the man for this time.
Yup. Reagan worship and Reagan nostalgia is at the core of conervative defeats.
For EIGHT YEARS now, poll after poll has consistently shown that Republican voters have given up on the Republican Party in national politics.
Very true. We also had strong domestic manufacturing in 1980. It was a matter of getting the factories producing again and paying people enough to buy what they produced. Today, even a good economy means a booming financial sector and people borrowing money to buy things made in China.
I miss a lot of things about RR. I wrote his biography.
(”Reagan: The American President,” the most recent Reagan biography out there)
But Ronald Reagan would not be successful today, any more than FDR would have been successful in 1980, any more than Abe Lincoln would have been successful in 1932. Each was keenly attuned for his age. Reagan’s magic worked because he existed in an era outside social media, where he could stage an end-run around the big five media companies by using presidential addresses to go straight to the public. Trump could not do that. The Hoax News media wouldn’t cover him, saying it was just a “political event,” not a “presidential speech.” Reagan was way too nice for today’s bare-knuckled politics.
FDR never would have made it in the television age, for obvious reasons. In the 1980s, there was still prejudice against anyone in a wheelchair or severely handicapped when it came to being president, and with television, he would not have been able to hid it.
Lincoln’s wisdom came in longer monologues, and his high, screechy voice would not have been appealing in the age of radio. Nor was he photogenic, which would have worked against him.
People arise at certain times because they are perfectly fit for the age.
I attended the March for Life one year in the 1980s when Reagan was President. He addressed the crowd remotely, and my one lasting impression was that the guy had all the strength and conviction of a cardboard box left out in the rain for a week. That was the last time I bothered going.
“Today’s deep-state GOP would most definitely call him “divisive,” “extremist,” and “unable to win elections.”
They said all that back then.
“whoever else is the next Republican president”
Personally, I do not think the “next Republican president/ has been born yet. If ever.
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