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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: broken_clock

Yes he did what?

Trump left the Republican party to become a Democrat, Reagan last voted for a democrat president in 1948 before he became active in campaigning for Republicans like Eisenhower in 1952 and in 56 and Nixon in 1960 and of course the big Goldwater speech in 64.

When Reagan was a democrat and voted for 2 different democrat presidents FDR and Truman, both of whom had been his commander-in-chief, so was Texas democrat at the time, his era of the democrat party of the Great Depression and WWII predated the abortion, homosexual, radical leftist anti-America party of the post-1960s.


41 posted on 12/26/2023 8:01:20 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Funny they never seem concerned that JFK wouldn’t recognize today’s Democratic Party.


42 posted on 12/26/2023 8:03:26 AM PST by Truthsearcher
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump, as did Reagan, has a ‘soap box’ cachet that resonated around the world, hence the release of American hostages by Iran when Reagan was elected, and likewise, no wars under 45.

<> Heap big-chief in the house. <>


43 posted on 12/26/2023 8:06:37 AM PST by freepersup (“Those who conceal crimes are preparing to commit new ones.” ~Vuk Draskovic~)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The answer is: compare Tip O’Neil to Nancy Pelosi.


44 posted on 12/26/2023 8:09:20 AM PST by Paraclete
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To: Truthsearcher

JFK was far more radical than you guys think and his election is what destroyed America, his policies were the poison pill.

A Nixon win in 1960 would have prevented what happened to us.


45 posted on 12/26/2023 8:11:11 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ChicagoConservative27
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news.yahoo.com (Karyn Amira, College of Charleston)

46 posted on 12/26/2023 8:14:05 AM PST by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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To: RKV
Ronnie did get us into wars in the Middle East and invaded Grenada.

He pulled back from Lebanon when he saw where it was going. The Grenada invasion stopped a Commie takeover in the Western hemisphere for low cost, and Americans were at stake.
47 posted on 12/26/2023 8:14:10 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

everybody wants to make Trump a right wing conservative-ESPECIALLY the left.

Trump is MAGA -and cuts both ways across the middle 60% of America.

The extreme left always loses an honest election in most precincts-as does the extreme right

Exactly as it should work out...


48 posted on 12/26/2023 8:14:14 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Trump’s Supreme Court picks were better. Reagan gave us the great Scalia but also the horrid O’Connor and the mistake Kennedy, who seemed to be more conservative than he turned out to be. Trump gave us three picks who voted to overturn Roe vs. Wade.


49 posted on 12/26/2023 8:15:53 AM PST by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: enumerated
I had this poster in 1980. It shows that Reagan understood MAGA.

50 posted on 12/26/2023 8:16:57 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Spellcheck got ya


51 posted on 12/26/2023 8:18:25 AM PST by bigbob
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Another article brought to you by people who opposed Reagan, hated Reagan, tried to sabotage Reagan and generally decried Reagan as a warmonger who was trying to end the world. Reagan was the greatest evil!!!

But now the claim his legacy. They claim to speak for him. They claim to know what he would do.

They no more speak for Reagan than I would speak for Obama.


52 posted on 12/26/2023 8:22:33 AM PST by FlipWilson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If Karyn Amira can read the minds of the dead she should tell us how the stock market will do this coming year. Of if she’s just projecting the hated of never Trumpers, she should try being honest.


53 posted on 12/26/2023 8:22:44 AM PST by GOPJ (Surgery doesn't make a man a woman anymore than wearing a Gorilla costume turns a man into an ape.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“A very large portion of my party really doesn’t believe in the Constitution.”

Zero percent of the other party believes in it. What's your plan, Mitt?

54 posted on 12/26/2023 8:24:02 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Typo. Not twit; TWOT. Total Waste Of Time.

Listening to anything this arshole says is like listening to CNN. Present day GOP is sorta like the DemoParty — slowly moved to the left. In the latter case so much so that the DemoParty is little more than a collection of self-hating commie trash.


55 posted on 12/26/2023 8:27:37 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo, )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

This is gaslighting.

The Romney/Ryan/Cheney/Christie wing of the party are fascists aligned with the Democrats. They despise Reagan as much as they do Trump. They have no problem with policies of the Obama/Biden/Soros regime.

Articles like this are meant to confuse. It is like telling us a boy can be a girl. If they can get people to deny fundamental reality, they can get them to believe anything.


56 posted on 12/26/2023 8:31:02 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: RKV
His position on the vaccine was not great? You mean using capitalist competition to create several novel vaccines against a new deadly virus in record time? They didn’t even announce study results until after election day. I think Pfizer held their data to hurt Trump on covid.

Mandates was all Joe.

57 posted on 12/26/2023 8:35:50 AM PST by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“””He pulled back from Lebanon when he saw where it was going.”””

He did and it was wise, but people don’t know that as the bomb went off in Lebanon, the Grenada invasion had already been launched, the go-ahead given and movements started before the bomb exploded.


58 posted on 12/26/2023 8:37:14 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Dr. Sivana
I had this poster in 1980. It shows that Reagan understood MAGA.

Great poster. It easily contradictions this nimrod author citing Mitt Romney and his ilk.

59 posted on 12/26/2023 8:39:09 AM PST by FreeReign
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To: newzjunkey

Didn’t need a rush job on the vaccines. Proof? The cruise ship results. Covid was known to be a bad cold, and known early, and known not to be Ebola or the Black Plague. The rest of the drama was manipulation, politics and money.


60 posted on 12/26/2023 8:39:56 AM PST by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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