Is Trump the Second Coming of Reagan?

The New Yorker | May 18, 2018 | Susan B. Glasser

[2ndDivisionVet]

Link only due to copyright issues: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/is-trump-the-second-coming-of-reagan

[Lurkinanloomin]

Because the Bush family had a strangle hold on the GOP.
No one who would side with the citizens and the rule of law was allowed to rise.

[RinaseaofDs]

Was Reagan Trump’s John the Baptist?

[Dalberg-Acton]

Great comment. Agree 100%

[Fresh Wind]

Maybe Reagan was the first coming of Trump.

[ConservativeMind]

He hasn’t outright fired 11,000+ government union workers (air traffic controllers) and he hasn’t let the budget run out, stopping the government for weeks.

He hasn’t developed a major type of beneficial treaty (START) or had years of economic prosperity or reduced interest rates by many points under great economic conditions (as opposed to poor conditions leading to lower rates).

He hasn’t been able to get a great competitor to “tear down their wall.”

Donald Trump is a great president, but Ronald Reagan had incredible actions during his years, despite a Democrat-controlled Congress.

Trump is a comparatively unaccomplished president, at this early time.

[Vendome]

He’s worse and I love it...

[Slyfox]

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump are the two bookends encasing a some of bad presidents and bad decisions.

Ronald started the good stuff and Donald will finish it.

[laconic]

Well put; Reagan and Trump are the great bookends. Unfortunately, there was pure crap, both Democrats and Republicans, in the middle.

[arthurus]

Not the Second Coming, but the logical follow-up.

[Grampa Dave]

Wow this scary. I came up with the same thought and was thinking about posting it.

Was Reagan Trump’s John the Baptist?

[Grampa Dave]

Excellent reply!

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump are the two bookends encasing a some of bad presidents and bad decisions.

Ronald started the good stuff and Donald will finish it.

[MrEdd]

Trump is not the second coming of Reagan.
He might be better described as the second coming of Truman.

[karnage]

We know that.

The New Yorker?

Not so much.

[rlmorel]

Well, he DOES have a very big head! And it IS orange...:)

[trebb]

I see him as Reagan on steroids and I believe The Gipper is smiling down from Heaven...

[Lakeshark]

Reagan was my favorite President, the only great one in my life time.

That being said, Trump's first year and a half has been more productive, and better, for conservatives and American prosperity than Reagan's.

We'll know how they stack against each other in 6 1/2 years.

[US Navy Vet]

Trump is MUCH better that Reagan. Reagan was DEEP STATE Compromised(Bush, Baker) at EVERY turn.

[FrankR]

More like Reagan was the “precursor” to Trump.

[Pelham]

“Trump is equal parts Reagan and Truman, with a dash of Andrew Jackson.”

Good call.

[Pelham]

“The real question is this: Were there any available between Reagan and Trump? Names please. Why didn’t they rise?”

Paul Laxalt, the Nevada Governor and Reagan’s “First Friend”.

Paul Laxalt is who Reagan would have chosen for VP had he been entirely free to act. He chose Bush in order to placate the GOP establishment and get their support.