Posted on 12/12/2016 6:58:58 PM PST by Ennis85
Looking for Mythological Reagan
Ronald Reagan’s legacy looms large over American conservatives. Everyone wants to be the new Ronald Reagan and Republican candidates can’t stop declaring his name with bated breath. Regrettably for conservatives, the visage of Reagan they broadcast has little to do with the actual president but epitomizes a caricature forged in Republican media circles and punditry for the last 20 years. This Mythological Reagan is evoked as the tough, principled, provocative conservative who spoke truth in an uncompromising fashion. A man hated by liberals and leftists while he celebrated America’s greatness at home and abroad; a leader who would deliver America to be brighter future.
This Mythological Reagan has been invoked continuously for the last two decades, but it always acted as a theoretical model of emulation rather than an actual blueprint. Donald Trump, unlike any candidate before him, has successfully embodied the myth of Reagan, and that is what frightens party insiders. The Reagan caricature they crafted has now been given life and it appears to be irresistible.
One Step Away from Destruction
As Trump picks up a number of conservative governor endorsements this week, it appears that some in the party’s establishments have accepted the Donald’s rise to the nomination as inevitable. While factions of the Republican base are still fighting to stop Trump from seizing the nomination, their familiar rhetorical tactics are beginning to fall on deaf ears. Writing for National Review, Curt Anderson argued:
"This memo is for people who care about replacing Justice Scalia with a constitutional conservative, people who care about stopping abortion and defending unborn babies, people who care about rebuilding America’s defenses, people who want to protect the right to keep and bear arms, people who want to stop this mindless slide toward a "
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TRUMP is so much better than Reagan , you can’t make it up. Trump is the greatest American since George Washington. Reagan lowered taxes but took our deductions away!! Reagan ran from Lebanon like a girl, after the Sunnis blew up 241 Marines in Beirut!! Reagan did crap in comparison to what we are about to see with Trump. God Bless America and God Bless Donald Trump!
Trump is not yet proven.
Reagan was an incredible president.
Pretty cool that they met, but.... that quote doesn’t look to be true: http://www.snopes.com/reagan-trump-handshake/
Trust me, I am no fan of snopes and didn’t much like using that as ‘proof’. I’ve seen articles of theirs that gave wrong or biased conclusions. However, this one seemed to be accurate in that there doesn’t seem to be any proof that Reagan predicted his presidency.
What they did miss, however, is there are articles about Trump talking of meeting Reagan. He indicated that had mutual respect for each other among other niceties. - The quote does sound like something Reagan would say, phrase wise. Trump’s first wife also says ‘Reagan or someone’ sent Donald a letter in the 80s encouraging him to run for office. So it is possible... its just unfortunate that there is no proof of that quote. (Errr, And President Trump didn’t endorse that quote, right? Although if he did, that would be proof enough for me.)
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