Free Republic
Browse · Search
GOP Club
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Protests didn’t hurt Reagan, and they’re not going to stop Trump
The Washington Post's PostEverything ^ | February 8, 2017 | Julian Zelizer

Posted on 02/08/2017 7:01:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-38 last
To: 2ndDivisionVet

Exactly. Foolish Dems are firing all their ammo, and getting no hits.

Eliz Warren is fast on her way to being yesterday’s news. If she wants to be President, she is peaking about 7 years and 10 months too early.


21 posted on 02/08/2017 7:39:14 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

There was a massive wave of anger and protest against Reagan, but it received far less coverage. We are so saturated with 24/7 news coverage now that the news makes its own news and other news outlets cover the news story as if it were real news. It has become pretty ridiculous and reporters are more openly partisan today IMO than they were when the Reagan administration began. On top of that, we have the alt-news on both the left and the right that report with even more click grabbing hysterics on every story and insinuation because that is how they make money. The more sensational the better and this has led to more people becoming more hysterical.

It is a far different world for media than what Reagan walked into and combined with the all-time high partisanship I would judge that Trump has it worse, but the 60’s radicals were pretty unhinged over the Gipper.


22 posted on 02/08/2017 7:40:40 PM PST by volunbeer (Clinton Cash = Proof of Corruption)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino
When Reagan moved to install Pershing missiles into Europe, there were million-communist marches all over Europe. I don't recall the protests in NYC but am inclined to believe they occurred. The point missed by the Princeton scrunt who wrote this mess, is that Reagan's policy prevailed, his idiot opponents were proven wrong, and his decisiveness signaled a turning point in the Cold War.
23 posted on 02/08/2017 7:42:39 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Vendome

> These poll numbers are bunk.

Even if the polls were not fake, I’d still prefer to have 4 years of Trump being Trump, doing what America needs, rather than 8 years of a “W” style administration.


24 posted on 02/08/2017 7:54:47 PM PST by XEHRpa
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: DesertRhino

this seems more like the Nixon era to me....they actually had to ring the white house with buses....Kent happened..even some republicans thought Nixon was kinda crazy...and he went on to one of the biggest landslides ever. Trump admired Nixon..as long as he keeps the fight legal, he’ll crush em.


25 posted on 02/08/2017 7:58:15 PM PST by basalt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: ButThreeLeftsDo
He needs to stop with the Tweets and become the next Ronald Reagan.

He grew a multi billion dollar fortune by heeding his own advice, and doing things the Trump way. He also became President by changing nothing about himself.

I think President Trump will do just fine by continuing in the same manner.

26 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:01 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: volunbeer

Reagan had a landslide in the electoral college and popular vote

Trump did not approach his margin of victory

Lot more brainwashed left wingers around now
30 years of our colleges etc pumping them out


27 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:36 PM PST by uncbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: volunbeer

Reagan had a landslide in the electoral college and popular vote

Trump did not approach his margin of victory

Lot more brainwashed left wingers around now
30 years of our colleges etc pumping them out


28 posted on 02/08/2017 8:03:58 PM PST by uncbob
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yep, no only are protests not hurting Trump, if the Dem party continues to allow the Control Left to dominate this rabidness, they are going to get decimated in 2018.


29 posted on 02/08/2017 8:10:34 PM PST by Moonlighter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lagmeister

Quite frankly the protests are hurting the Democratic party.


30 posted on 02/08/2017 8:19:26 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Divide and conquer” has been the rally cry from the left since before the French Revolution.

Karl Marx made it into a rally cry of his revolution and its this resulted in the death of millions.

The difference is that what we are seeing here is not the start of a revolution. Trump was the revolution. What we are seeing are the death throes of a major political party.


31 posted on 02/08/2017 8:31:49 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Trump is never going to be a Ronald Reagan.

He is going to be something far greater.


32 posted on 02/08/2017 8:41:53 PM PST by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Spontaneous protests.”

They report complete lies with such ease.


33 posted on 02/08/2017 8:41:57 PM PST by JennysCool
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

yeah, but Reagan did get shot....


34 posted on 02/08/2017 9:29:23 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

“ranging from the spontaneous protests that have broken out”

The protests were not spontaneous. That is pure bs.


35 posted on 02/08/2017 9:37:45 PM PST by Parley Baer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

I lived through the Reagan era. The level of hatred against Reagan felt very similar to,the level of hatred against Trump. It is terrible, but sadly, nothing new.

W also got hated a lot, but is no longer a byword here in San Francisco.

Reagan is still mentioned hatefully. He is blamed for all bad things. For example all the homeless grifters, insane and drug addicts running around. This town owned and run by the most liberal if demicrats for decades, blames...Ronald Reagan for it. As if.

And trump is hated passionately. Everyone just assumes you hate him, too. I drive a cab and my passengers just assume it. But 10 percent of San Francisco voted for Trump.


36 posted on 02/08/2017 10:11:27 PM PST by Persevero (NUTS)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lagmeister

I want to see a Simpsons episode where an assassin tries to shoot Trump but instead Trump pulls out a gold plated 1911 and drills the perp with two to the chest and one between the eyes of solid gold bullets.

Better yet the perp actually yets a shot off but Trump rips off his shirt to show gold dragonskin body armor.

The liberals are forecasting Trumps demise because Simpsons episodes are always prophecy. And there was an episode of Trumps death 7 months after being elected.


37 posted on 02/09/2017 12:23:22 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: 2ndDivisionVet

More wishful wet-dreaming by the WaaaaaaaaaaPo....


38 posted on 02/09/2017 4:08:56 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-38 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
GOP Club
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson