Dronald Treagan

Original Material | 11/14/2016 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

What an amazing, stunning week it has been.

Donald Trump won the election, defying the odds, the polls, and beating back the intense levels of voter fraud.

Donald Trump seems, to me, to be a version Ronald Reagan -- or at least a version for a courser age.

Trump has his faults, to be sure. He's brash. He's mouthy. I attribute that to the rancorous inclination of these venomous times. Perhaps at this time, we do not need a bull in a china shop. Perhaps we need a bull that brings his own china to break.

Here is why I view Trump in a Reaganesque light:

1. Trump beat the combined forces of the media, the pundits, the Democrats, and Establishment Republicans. Reagan had those elements arrayed against him as well. In fact, the Establishment Republicans insisted that Reagan accept, as a Vice President, an Establishment hack that had been the top CIA asset in America -- George H.W. Bush. Luckily, Trump's pick of Pence shows he wasn't similarly conciliatory in the Vice Presidential selection.
2. Trump has passion -- a passion also seen in Reagan.
3. Trump is pro-life, like Reagan. Trump's pro-life leanings are not absolute, and neither were Reagan's.
4. Trump is pro-America in a manner we have not seen since Reagan. His very campaign slogan (Make America Great Again) gives voice to Trump's deepest motivation -- an abiding love for our country.
5. Trump has promised to charge the economy with tax cuts and regulatory relief -- which, when executed by Reagan, gave America the longest and most powerful period of economic growth for a very long time.
6. Trump, like Reagan, respects and defends the Second Amendment.
7. Reagan hated government-employee unions, as does Trump.
8. Reagan told it like it was. Can we deny Trump is as blunt?
9. Trump emerges from the mob-ridden sewers of New York City. Reagan came from the communist-infiltrated halls of Hollywood. Each, therefore, had a command of how to deal with, and often neutralize, enemies and criminals.
10. Reagan had, as his base, disaffected Democrats, called Reagan Democrats. Trump has his, as well.
11. Trump has vowed to protect America from illegal immigration. This was one of Reagan's big issues as well, signing the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. This act targeted employers and made it illegal to hire or recruit illegals (Unfortunately, the Democrats managed to pollute this act with significant Amnesty.)

There are differences, of course:

1. He's more raw and less inhibited in his communications. Reagan had an eloquent and lofty delivery of his ideas, whereas Trump is much plainer spoken -- simple, almost. However, with the current electorate, that might be a very good thing.
2. The forces of globalism and the desires of globalists were not yet so starkly evident in the 1980s, so Reagan embarked on a few political initiatives that advanced globalist interests -- such as NAFTA.
3. Reagan had a baptism-of-fire in politics. Trump has no such experience, although one can argue that all business in New York City is ultimately political.

As I have written elsewhere, the fight is no longer Republican vs. Democrat. The fight is not even Conservative vs. Liberal. The fight is Populism vs. Globalism/Elitism. Trump appears to understand this, and he seems the perfect person to carry forward this fight.

In the 1980's, not many of us (Reagan included) understood the threat of the Globalists and Elitists. Perhaps the John Birch Society did, but they were written off as 'kooks and conspiracy theorists'. Still, they existed then, and when Reagan served his two terms, the Globalists were set back twenty years. Trump may set them back another twenty years.

Always bear in mind that Trump is not a Conservative. He is a Populist and a Nationalist. Populism and Nationalism both contain some Conservative principles, but some Liberal principles as well. To summarize the philosophies, Populism is about seating power in the hands of the people, and Nationalism is about defending the nation and preventing the erasure of the very concept of 'country'. Conservatives will be disappointed, often, by Trump's leanings. But Trump is what we need, right now. We must stabilize the patient that is the United States, before embarking on a rigorous program of fitness and health.

[NTHockey]

Laz, your tagline brings back memories of Russ Hodges famous call after Bobby Thomson’s “shot heard round the world”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrI7dVj90zs

[Carriage Hill]

LOL!

[Lazamataz]

:)

I actually wanted to do the South American sports-announcer “GOOOOOAAALLLLLLLL GOOOOOAAALLLLLLLL GGGGOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL” thing, but the tagline is Twitter-sized. :)

[zipper]

Agreed on everything, but in my humble opinion, let’s drop all of these euphemistic code words and call the war that we’re in by it’s correct name: patriotism versus treason.

That's right -- Obama is the anti-patriot, hates the founders (though won't hesitate to invoke their words when he can use them to his advantage), hates the Constitution ('limits government, tells us what we can't do, rather than what we should do on the nation's behalf'), and truly HATES AMERICA. Which is why "fundamental transformation" was his agenda.

[rurgan]

Trump
1. is pro-life = conservative
2. has already proposed a 35% reduction in government employees = very conservative as no one has ever done this because goverment has always grown so Trump is the most conservative on this.
3. massive reduction in government regulations , the most ever means again Trump is the most conservative on this issue.
4. Tax cuts again conservative
5. supports 2nd amendment = conservative position
6. Pro-America , America first = conservative . MAGA = conservative
7. A wall is not conservative? yes it is because it reduces socialist immigrants who will turn the USA socialist.
so I don't see the liberal proposals that supposedly make Trump so liberal. We dodged a bullet with the snake oil salesmen who say they are conservative but never have done anything conservative as in Romney ,Jeb, Ryan , Cruz et al imo

[bert]

All things considered...... pretty good post

[rurgan]

also 8 . Judges like Scalia = conservative.

I’m sure I’ve missed other Trump proposals that show he is a conservative but these 8 are just off the top of my head.

[Sans-Culotte]

Personally, I hope Trump keeps his brash, mouthy nature. Political correctness must die, and triggered students must retreat to Safe Spaces.

I agree. Trump seems brash because PC has made so many afraid to speak the truth. People used to praise Harry Truman for telling it like it is.

[gogeo]

Very well said. Reagan’s formative influences were WW2 and the Midwest. Trump, the 1960s and NYC. Largely stylistic differences. For all the sneering about “He’s no Reagan,” the similarities are there, IMO.

[gogeo]

BTW, “original material” isn’t a vanity, is it?

[Lazamataz]

It’s a vanity, but I hope it is at the Freeper Editorial level — which is something JimRob created for vanities that are publish-worthy.

[Lazamataz]

Tanks!

[sauropod]

I agree with what you wrote. Trump is the best we can get at this time.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I would agree with your assessment. One thing more, like Reagan, I think Trump is a big idea kind of guy and will let his people fill in the details. Unlike Reagan, he’s not too humble and will take credit for every win.

[Lazamataz]

I agree with what you wrote.

Eye gnu yew wood!

[LS]

Trump’s coarse, celebrity, Twitter-talk was tailor made for this era, just as Reagan’s “morning in America” was for his and Lincoln’s for his. Times change. 16 other GOP candidates mastered this.

[knarf]

I think he's right, Laz.

It IS Patriotism vs. Treason.

THAT has been the overt and covert message of Trump's campaign

[MayflowerMadam]

“I hope Trump keeps his brash, mouthy nature. Political correctness must die,”

Yes. If he goes all squishy then we’ll have lost some of the reason for electing him. We have to keep the anti-PC movement alive.

I know it’s a small thing, but I’m going to be shouting, “Merry Christmas!” every blessed chance I get. I’m going to be ridiculing every insane thing people around me say or do. I’m in a group with a big lib who corrects me all the time. If I say, “Indian”, she correct me with, “Native American”. When I say, “man hours”, she corrects with “person hours”. And I never defend myself. Enough already!!

Trump, from the top, needs to keep this ball rolling.

[Fury]

Really? Pretty disgusting...

[gogeo]

Very worthy. You were being tweaked on that, Sir.