I remember Ronald Reagan. I remember 1980. Reagan was a gentleman, a class act and a principled conservative. The Donald is rude, crude, classless and is neither principled nor conservative. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, The Donald is practically Reagan’s clone and this is deja vu all over again. /s
You are so full of propaganda BS. Trump is a world-class businessman. He isn’t rude - that’s just a figment of the MSM. He speaks his mind, just like Reagan did. I guess you haven’t seen the videos where Reagan tells a protestor to “shut up!” Would you consider that gentlemanly or classless? Probably so. Yourmisguided characterization of Trump is pathetic.
Agreed about Trump vs. Reagan... Reagan was a consummate gentleman and had HUMBLE SELF-EFFACING HUMOR.
Trump is a blowhard. Always boasting. I wish he would lay off the ego stuff and take a page out of the Reagan book.
And unlike Trump, Reagan was actually quite the political intellectual in spite of how the Left portrayed him as stupid.
All one has to do is spend a glorious 30 minutes watching Reagan’s 1964 Speech to appreciate his superior intelligence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
There is NO WAY Trump could ever write & present such a powerful political/economic speech. He’s just not in Reagan’s league.
Given the foregoing, perhaps Reagan’s civility wouldn’t work against the PC-Fascist left-wingers and Trump’s low-class New York bully persona is what we need to break up the left-wing socioeconomic FASCISM so rampant in our country.
My God you are ignorant.
“My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
...and the MSM goes nuts
In the 80's, we still had manners.
Today; we have short tempers and crassness.
In the 80's, we had boxing - with Queensbury rules.
Today; we have cage fighting.
In the 80's, we had clean cut Preppies.
Today; we have shredded jeans and tats galore .
In the 80's, we had Octopussy.
Today; we have Caitlyn.
Donald is a PERFECT fit for today.
>>I remember Ronald Reagan. I remember 1980.
I remember 1980 too. America was a much more civil nation then. The two parties did not work together to destroy the American middle class (yet). We didn’t have a permanent welfare underclass who could be called upon to disrupt and loot on command.
Go out and drive around for while. Watch how people will cut you off, cut in line, and get angry over the simplest things (like waiting 2 seconds to move after the light turns green). That is 2016 America. 1980 America is long gone. Trump is the Reagan for a nation of rude, impatient, angry people.
Trump is not as polite as Reagan. What both men have in common is that they live this country and want it to be a great and enduring republic
Nobody is saying that Trump is another Reagan. What is being said that Trump is being TREATED the same way Reagan was treated.
Any of us that lived through that time saw it from the very beginning. In the 1976 primary, Reagan was treated horribly and it didn't change in 1980. His own party called him names and forced Bush on him at the convention.
Open you eyes to what is really going on and don't just play party politics.
Your memory is flawed. Reagan was loathed and mocked by people just like you. They accused him of being rude, stupid, fake, you name it. Reagan implied Ford was brain damaged in 1976 when he said “I played football too - the difference is, I wore a helmet”. Everyone was outraged. He called reporters liars, he used an angry tone, he said protesters in Sacramento “had hair like Tarzan, walked like Jane, and smelled like Cheetah”. He called the Russians and Red Chinese “evil” and joked about bombs.
This directness was seen by many as aggressive, hostile and reckless. His behavior was initially met with anger and contempt from the left and the establishment right. After a few years when people saw he was not a war monger, he was regarded as an amiable dunce. Several more years later when the economy improved, some other critics began to soften.
History has been kind to Reagan, and he deserves that retrospective respect. He had some loyal fans like you and me that loved him from the get go, but he was not initially respected as a wise avuncular gentleman. His world view was confrontational and simplistic, his economic views were “voodoo economics”.
I am not one of the people saying Trump is the new Reagan. Obviously they are completely different people. But Reagan was not always so well regarded, except by those of us who always loved him. In fact, I am pleasantly surprised at how well history has treated Reagan. Back then, admitting you liked Reagan in most social groups was risky as it is today admitting you are a Trump supporter. People automatically think you must be stupid.
You are full of it!
How Governor Reagan dealt with the Berkeley protesters in 1969!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpg0UfpuUAs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCr3nL78qWs
Reagan handles a protester in 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEXOpm0H7QA
Except Reagan cheated to get INTO the military and Trump (and every other Limp-Richard on the ballot) were too good to serve in uniform.
Trump just as much of a gentleman as Reagan was...Reagan much more of a politician in regards to the speeches he gave, but at the end of the day both have the same message,IMHO.
Look at it this way, DT is THIS generation’s Reagan. DT is a great actor and a con. He is making the deal of his life with his supporters and I hope that he doesn’t abandon them the way he abandoned Scotland.
He talked the government into letting him build the greatest golf course in the world, on PROTECTED seaside dunes. He then built hills and put in trees to block the Scottish redneck homes that had been there for 40 years because he didn’t want to be able to see them from the course.
What does he do later? He sues the Scottish government when they want to put up windmills within view from the course because it would take away from the pleasure of the view from his course.
“He alleged in the judicial review that his own human rights had been breached, because the windfarm, which is funded by the European commission and supported by many local organisations which had also backed Trump’s golf resort, interfered with his “peaceful enjoyment of his property”.”
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/11/donald-trump-irish-golf-scotland-windfarm#comments
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13806500.Trump_s___2_million_losses_at_Scottish_golf_courses/
http://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/157609870/in-the-scottish-dunes-its-david-versus-the-donald
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/11/donald-trump-irish-golf-scotland-windfarm
So because he lost his lawsuit and it no longer appealed to him, he abandoned Scotland. He did employ 200 people. Personally I think if he was no longer going to keep it up then they should bulldoze it and revert it to the way it was.