Reagan is the exception that proves the rule.
Much like Donald Trump, he realized the Media was the enemy.
He worked to get around the Media, and had some success; he won the Cold war.
Reagan, like Trump, was a complete surprise to the deep state. He was supposed to lose.
Reagans appointments to the Supreme Court were the start of an Orignialist Court today. Still, the left was able to stop Bork. The left was able to get a ban on any more manufacture of machineguns into the reforms of the gun owners protection act of 1986. The left was able to stop serious dimminishment of illegal immigration after they got amnesty.
Affirmitive action kept getting worse and worse.
The universities kept getting more and more left.
Conservatives, in general, still did not understand the enemy was the media, until after the election of 1994.
Re: “Conservatives, in general, still did not understand the enemy was the media, until after the election of 1994.”
Sorry, that’s ridiculous.
I have been politically active since the 1964 Goldwater campaign. The media destroyed Goldwater, destroyed support for the Vietnam War, and destroyed Nixon in 1974.
1994 was the pinnacle of Conservative political power.
Since the Gingrich implosion in 1995-96, American Conservatives have had no consequential national leadership.
In 2020, Trump is the most Conservative candidate who has a chance to be elected president - which is why I will vote for him.
However, Trump has never been a Conservative, and, as far as I know, Trump has never called himself a Conservative.
Nationally, American Conservatives have always been a numerical minority.
The only reason we win national elections sometimes is because we have the highest voter turn out of any other political group.
That advantage has been crushed by 35 years of massive LEGAL immigration.
Win or lose in 2020, Trump will be the last Republican president in American history.