Donald Trump Is No Ronald Reagan

Wall Street Journal ^ | 6/28/2016 | Peggy Noonan

[poconopundit]

Peggy Noonan, ex-speech writer for Ronald Reagan, argues that you can't equate Donald Trump with Ronald Reagan.  Here are a few excerpts from the column followed by my commentary:

• Look, Mr. Trump is not Ronald Reagan.  Reagan served two full terms as the governor of a state so vast that if it were a country it would have been one of the important economies in the world.  He was a union president who served seven terms during the most fraught time in Hollywood’s history and emerged respected by all sides.  He was no novice.

• Trump supporters should be able to make an affirmative case for their candidate without diminishing Reagan or anyone else.  You shouldn’t cut down a man you know was great to make him fit your candidate’s size.  It is poor political etiquette.  It’s also historical parallelism gone mad.  Mr.  Trump isn’t Reagan, and he isn’t Andrew Jackson either.  He’s Mr.  Trump.

• Donald Trump needs serious, substantive people to help with his campaign and advise him in foreign and domestic policy.  But some will not join him because they don’t want to get Trump cooties.  They don’t want the stigma of working with him. 

• Maybe if Trump wants to be compared to Reagan he should act more like him.

[TakebackGOP]

I don’t see people who support Trump criticizing Reagan. Trump is what our country needs now. Didn’t Noonan support Obama?

[M Kehoe]

And Thomas Jefferson was no George Washington.

Noonan is reaching. For what I don’t know.

5.56mm

[Electric Graffiti]

Peggy......you swooned, supported and voted for a marxist muslim illegal alien enemy combatant. TWICE.

You're not only an aging, dumb lisping C..t, you're a TRAITOR.

[chopperman]

In a way, I compare Trump with Ike.

Neither was influenced by politics.

Both could have cross party appeal and could run as either a Democrat or a Republican.

Also, Ike was successful in expelling the illegals.

[Ketill Frostbeard]

Nothing is happening by accident. Reagan was great, but Trump is being prepared for something greater. Peggy Noonan has already eaten her words so many times she should staple ketchup packets to her manuscripts.

[Popman]

-— In fact, I believe there’s a good chance the history books will one day put Trump on a higher pedestal than Reagan.-—

When Trump almost single handed destroys a Soviet Union type entity without a single shoot fired.

Killed communism and freed literally millions of people from its evil grip
..

You might have a point...

[Donglalinger]

If I remember correctly they called him B-movie actor and never mentioned him being Governor. Sort of like Trump is a Reality show star.

[Electric Graffiti]

So, Peggy Noonan took the presidential member out of her mouth and got off her knees to write something against Trump

It's apparent her marxist muslim mandingo fever has never broken.

[SamAdams76]

I’ll settle for saving our nation.

[lacrew]

Caveat - I voted for Cruz I the primary.

But I remember watching Trump on Jimmy Fallon’s show, last summer, right as he was starting his campaign. Fallon would ask a stupid question, and he would find Trump’s answer so ‘over the top’ that he was bent over laughing at his desk.

But Trump ignored him, and kept talking...looking right into the camera...complemented the American people, and made it clear that he loved his country.

I was stunned at how well he was connecting...and it absolutely reminded me of Ronald Reagan.

No, Trump isn’t Reagan. But his ability to speak directly to the people, without a media filter sure seems similar. I knew right then that Trump would win the primary.

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

Trump is not Reagan, BUT Trump CAN be as great a POTUS as Reagan, so Peggy just SHUT UP!!!!

[GregoTX]

Trump is no hillary clinton either.

The primaries are over.

[DesertRhino]

Noonan. Reagan was awesome but she’s one of those people with two problems. She literally deifies him. And she mistakes being a speechwriter with being a policy maker.

This twit needs to go away. She endorsed Obama in 2008.

[al baby]

I think I may write in Reagan

[Jane Austen]

Dear Peggy: No, Trump is not Reagan and has never tried to pass as Reagan. These are two different people. While there are some similarities, there are also differences such as one being an actor and another a businessman.

As lilypad pointed out, Trump's children's turned out much better than Reagan's. Last week I heard Michael Reagan, the one I used to think was the sensible one, speaking, and he sounded like a devoted Hillary supporter.

[Popman]

Works for me...

just pointing out the obvious..

How about Trump actually does something Reaganist before we start thinking he has accomplished something to compare him to Reagan...

[orchestra]

Yeah, she gets paid for this crap?

[Hostage]

Get a grip Pegganoona, my hero RR also appointed Anthony Kennedy who gave America perverted marriage and families, and unleashed unprecedented persecution of Christians on American soil.

DT will inspire and spur Americans like no president in our history.

[V K Lee]

Right on the NAIL! Parents the world over are attempting to find the answer “Why?”

[Sybeck1]

Donald Trump is no Hillary Clinton