Posted on 02/15/2016 6:04:17 PM PST by Hojczyk
As Yogi Berra said, "It is deja all over again."
The 2016 campaign is becoming more and more reminiscent of the 1980 campaign when the establishment threw everything it had at Ronald Reagan. Reagan was characterized as a crackpot, b-grade movie actor whose foreign policy would cause World War III; his economic policies were "madness" and the tax cut proposal was "voodoo economics."
Trump is in the same situation as Reagan was in 1976 and throughout the 1980 campaign until the convention in Detroit. And then, inexplicably to some conservatives, Reagan decided to put George H. W. Bush on the ticket as his vice president instead of Kemp.
Thus the political elites, inclusive of the impudent snobs, were able to salvage what would have been a near catastrophic situation -- not having access and leverage on the presidency and the business of Washington.
Needless to say, politics is a very big business and, as the New York Times recently reported, Donald Trump is a nightmare for the political consulting business. The digital media buy alone for 2016 is estimated to be nearly $1 billion. Jeb Bush has paid one firm over $40 million for advertising through December. Additionally, $3 billion is spent annually to lobby Capitol Hill and the White House.
Donald Trump, like Ronald Reagan, has interjected a positive dynamic into the U.S. political lexicon -- an anti-political correctness that resonates with voters. It is healthy for our country and severely needed within the Republican Party.
Americans are embracing Trump's vison of making America great again, just as they embraced Reagan's vision of America as that shinning city on the hill. Trump is very much a disciple of Ronald Reagan, contrary to what the impudent snobs say.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
....”not only is Trump a low-life, he hires people who have been known in the past to have actively worked against our core values.....The Donald is no Ronald Reagan.”.....
I recently read some comments by Reagans family members that he’s using Reagans name. No too many people even want to associate with him....he certainly can’t get endorsements worth any weight to speak of.
Ronald Reagan
I’m sorry, I busted out laughing when you said how convinced you were that Trump was going to build a wall
Thanks
Trump won every demographic in NH, even the most conservative demographic. Trump will win the nomination and the general. You can all stay home and pout, but he will win. There are many crossover voters that will negate any angry people who decide to stay home.
Get used to winning again, its not going to be so bad.
I hope not, wouldn’t want another amnesty.
Trumpism bears no resemblance to Reaganism. Trump’s premise is that our problem is that we have a government that’s run by idiots (true as far as it goes), but that things will work fine once the right people (namely, Mr. Trump) are in charge. President Reagan understood that government is the problem and the solution was to restrain government power as much as we could.
Trump, while correctly opposing 0bama’s executive orders, says “I’ll do good ones”, which indicates that he doesn’t understand the problem fully. That alone makes his view of government very different and in many ways incompatitible with the Reagan view.
I don’t want a conspiracy kook to follow a Communist kook. And Trump is a kook. As I’ve said, many of Trump’s supporters act like cult members.
Yes, he’s good on some issues now, but he’s completely untrustworthy, based upon his sucking up to and supporting Democrat Marxists for decades.
same ? Reagan was a Governor
I agree Trump is no Reagan - not remotely. Reagan’s ability to articulate the principles of individual liberty, debunk leftist lies is a legacy so great that the world has only begun to appreciate his contribution to mankind. He was able to inspire and reawaken a love of liberty that has served to keep a flame from being extinguished - and in 1980 there was real danger of that happening. Reagan’s greatness goes way beyond US presidents. I would put him on a short list of the worlds great thinkers and orators - MT Rushmore is just four populist presidents - Reagan deserves a lot more than to be added to that. But in spite of Reagan keeping the flame alive in some of us, the leftward drift has been relentless and 2016 we face not a moral crisis but more immediate threats to our existence.
Trump will never be regarded as a great thinker or moral leader. But if Reagan reset our moral compass and preserved our ability to think straight, right now, we need someone that can get our ass out of a sling, so that we may survive and have the luxury of focusing on the long term moral health of the Republic. I think Trump is the best bet for our near term survival. It’s sort of like dropping the A bomb on Hiroshima - we were at a point where idealism needed to be temporarily trumped by brutal pragmatism.
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