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Reagan wouldn't recognize Trump-style 'conservatism' – a look at how the GOP has changed
news.yahoo.com ^ | 12/25/2023 | Karyn Amira, College of Charleston

Posted on 12/26/2023 7:25:59 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump differs than most politicians with the exception being Reagan. Both were private sector people who went into government. Career politicians are the problem.


21 posted on 12/26/2023 7:46:14 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Rudy for Mayor of NYC in 24!)
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To: ansel12
Yes he did yet he still holds mostly the same political views as he did then.

Like Reagan said, “I didn’t leave the Democrats, they left me.”

22 posted on 12/26/2023 7:48:06 AM PST by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: farmguy
"...and Kennedy wouldn’t recognize obama style liberalism"

Depends on which Kennedy. Chappaquiddick Ted certainly would. In fact, he was the author of much of it, especially the "let the illegals in" version.

23 posted on 12/26/2023 7:48:23 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (NRA Life Member)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reagan wouldn’t recognize the twisted current liberalism either.


24 posted on 12/26/2023 7:48:44 AM PST by fwdude (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

BS. Reagan would be 100% on board with putting America First, destroying the Marxist deep state and calling out the lying fake news. 100%


25 posted on 12/26/2023 7:49:33 AM PST by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Poor Liberal Democrat Yahoo and their friends....

They’re always astroturfing


26 posted on 12/26/2023 7:49:57 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

They hated Reagan; you could tell from the mouth of Barbara Bush at her husband’s inauguration. And they would have been nowhere but for him, period. Reagan knew there were inalienable basic truths but there were also issues on which you changed as the times changed; witness the FDR Democrat and union chief who evolved into the two term conservative Governor and the best President of the past 63 years.


27 posted on 12/26/2023 7:50:01 AM PST by laconic
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To: gibsonguy

One local company has trucks marked:
‘A flush beats a full house every time’


28 posted on 12/26/2023 7:50:42 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The article seems to imply that Mitt Romney is a conservative. False assertion. I think that the modern Republican Party can be divided as follows (with characteristic representatives):

Country Club/Rockefeller wing: Mitt Romney
Populist wing: Donald Trump
Conservative wing: Clarence Thomas


29 posted on 12/26/2023 7:51:13 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reagan wouldn’t recognize what his country has become, either.


30 posted on 12/26/2023 7:51:17 AM PST by PGR88
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Trump is a moderate but that puts him to the far right to majority of elected republicans who are Neocons which are basically Trotskyites. Reagan was a great Republican president but would Calvin Coolidge recognize his style of conservatism? Probably not


31 posted on 12/26/2023 7:52:16 AM PST by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Exactly.

We need to take lessons about conservative history from a college professor and ... Mitt Romney? Laughable.


32 posted on 12/26/2023 7:53:10 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: DesertRhino

Lol.....thx for the realtime bio of this chick.


33 posted on 12/26/2023 7:53:10 AM PST by Liz (WRT govt: qualifications for wrecking crews are not as stringent as those for construction crews.)
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To: gibsonguy

You are correct. Yahoo is sewage.


34 posted on 12/26/2023 7:53:51 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is exactly right. Reagan was a true “small government” conservative. One of his most famous sayings was, “The scariest thing you can hear is someone saying ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’.”

Trump on the other hand, is a big believer in big government, he just wants to control it.


35 posted on 12/26/2023 7:56:44 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Jesus 2024)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/concern-troll/


36 posted on 12/26/2023 7:57:07 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reagan wouldn’t recognize the COUNTRY ffs, any more than WE do.


37 posted on 12/26/2023 7:58:49 AM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Look at her backround.

She’s Deep State’s.


38 posted on 12/26/2023 8:00:53 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: farmguy

Texas Democrat Sam Rayburn wouldn’t recognize much of anything.


39 posted on 12/26/2023 8:00:56 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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To: broken_clock

Reagan would be impressed at how much restraint Trump had shown in foreign entanglements.

^^^^^

THIS!


40 posted on 12/26/2023 8:00:58 AM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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