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To: lodi90; GingisK; Candor7; trebb; RandFan; Gen.Blather; ReganFan4ever; central_va
lodi90: "Get your facts straight: Trump borrowed “MAGA” from Reagan.
Conservatism has always been about policy and agenda.
Not Dear Leader populism."

Ronald Reagan's campaign themes in 1980 included:

  1. The economy: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"

  2. Carter's weakness: "The Time Is Now for Strong Leadership."

  3. Foreign Policy: "Peace Through Strength"

  4. Reduce Big Government: "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."

  5. General uplift: "Let's Make America Great Again"
MAGA was not the central theme of Reagan's 1980 campaign and was dropped in 1982, 1984 and 1986.

In 1984, Reagan's campaign themes were:

  1. "Morning in America"

  2. "Bringing America Back"

  3. "Prouder, Stronger, and Better"
Unlike Pres. Trump, Reagan's "Let's Make America Great Again" was not his central theme and unifying idea, it was an afterthought used as nice words on campaign buttons.
And it was quickly dropped and forgotten after the 1980 campaign.

By stark contrast, MAGA is Trump's major theme and purpose, carried forward through three presidential elections and their mid-terms over the past 10+ years.
It was not just one & done, it's been his slogan and focus from Day One.

So, MAGA absolutely belongs to Pres. Trump -- it's his to define and to accomplish.
Any future candidates & administrations claiming the MAGA mantle will be judged by how closely they follow Trump's definitions of what MAGA is & should be.

Yes, of course, if you wish to claim that MAGA is not truly conservative according to your definition of "conservative", that's an argument you can make -- you can easily claim, "we are the true conservatives" (if indeed you really are), but you cannot claim "we are the true MAGA", because that term belongs to Donald Trump -- it's his to define and to bestow on loyal supporters.

If you're not one, then you need your own slogan, it's can't be MAGA.


151 posted on 08/10/2026 4:11:22 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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To: BroJoeK

Thank you for your posts - too many here have been subverted without realizing it...weak minds get bent easily....and they never know it’s happening.


153 posted on 08/10/2026 5:29:25 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: BroJoeK

This point isn’t important to me.


155 posted on 08/10/2026 5:49:24 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: BroJoeK
THey can't touch this............and its driving them bonkers, almost as bad as the Dem lefty TDS idjits..

(*ucker Carlson, Margie Tailher Preen?BUahahahahahahaah!.......leeuwzers!)



164 posted on 08/11/2026 4:50:44 AM PDT by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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