I don’t see it in those terms. If I get two bad choices I will write in the name of someone I respect. I won’t be bullied into submission. You can blame those who won’t support him but I think the blame is with those who do support him. We should choose a conservative and not a con man. Conservatives gripe about the GOPe surrendering too fast in Congress, but they do the exact same thing in elections. They (GOPe and many of its critics) lead with compromise to liberalism. They are two sides of the same opportunistic, power-grubbing coin.
Well good luck up there on your judgmental perch. I’ll tell you something, Donald Trump is a living example of democracy and capitalism. He’s successful, hard working, and has a fabulous family that he has been hands-on with.
He is adamant about protecting the 2nd Amendment and that didn’t just come up. His entire family shoots, supports 2nd Amendment.
He believes strongly in border control, owes no pro-amnesty types to stop him from building a wall.
Just those areas would stop the bleeding from the liberals thousand cuts. But hey, if he doesn’t measure up 100% to your standards, then by all means, elect Hillary and finish us off.
The so-called true conservatives do not think about the fact that if Reagan were alive and running today, some of his policies would be different.
There is no Soviet Union anymore, and no bipolar world. Those were BIG in 1980. At that time, many people thought the USSR was more powerful than America. (It was not true, but many believed it.)
The country was not yet dying from socialistic principles. Reagan was following a very weak 1-term Democrat.
The flood of immigration was not threatening to swamp America.
American jobs had not been exported by the tens of millions to Asia and Latin America. Reagan had to deal with the USSR first and foremost-—a principal goal which led to his own admitted disappointment about other things he would have like to have done, like balancing the budget. The evils of WTO, NAFTA and other globalist programs were to come much later, so it was okay for Reagan to say he was for free trade.
It was a different time.
Islamism had just begun — ignited in the Iranian revolution. It did not seem to be a direct threat to America, certainly not a big-league threat like the USSR.
And so on. I can easily see Reagan as a proto-nationalist.
Certainly, he led, he inspired . . . he Made America Great Again.