Dronald Treagan

Original Material | 11/14/2016 | By Laz A. Mataz

[Lazamataz]

What an amazing, stunning week it has been.

Donald Trump won the election, defying the odds, the polls, and beating back the intense levels of voter fraud.

Donald Trump seems, to me, to be a version Ronald Reagan -- or at least a version for a courser age.

Trump has his faults, to be sure. He's brash. He's mouthy. I attribute that to the rancorous inclination of these venomous times. Perhaps at this time, we do not need a bull in a china shop. Perhaps we need a bull that brings his own china to break.

Here is why I view Trump in a Reaganesque light:

1. Trump beat the combined forces of the media, the pundits, the Democrats, and Establishment Republicans. Reagan had those elements arrayed against him as well. In fact, the Establishment Republicans insisted that Reagan accept, as a Vice President, an Establishment hack that had been the top CIA asset in America -- George H.W. Bush. Luckily, Trump's pick of Pence shows he wasn't similarly conciliatory in the Vice Presidential selection.
2. Trump has passion -- a passion also seen in Reagan.
3. Trump is pro-life, like Reagan. Trump's pro-life leanings are not absolute, and neither were Reagan's.
4. Trump is pro-America in a manner we have not seen since Reagan. His very campaign slogan (Make America Great Again) gives voice to Trump's deepest motivation -- an abiding love for our country.
5. Trump has promised to charge the economy with tax cuts and regulatory relief -- which, when executed by Reagan, gave America the longest and most powerful period of economic growth for a very long time.
6. Trump, like Reagan, respects and defends the Second Amendment.
7. Reagan hated government-employee unions, as does Trump.
8. Reagan told it like it was. Can we deny Trump is as blunt?
9. Trump emerges from the mob-ridden sewers of New York City. Reagan came from the communist-infiltrated halls of Hollywood. Each, therefore, had a command of how to deal with, and often neutralize, enemies and criminals.
10. Reagan had, as his base, disaffected Democrats, called Reagan Democrats. Trump has his, as well.
11. Trump has vowed to protect America from illegal immigration. This was one of Reagan's big issues as well, signing the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. This act targeted employers and made it illegal to hire or recruit illegals (Unfortunately, the Democrats managed to pollute this act with significant Amnesty.)

There are differences, of course:

1. He's more raw and less inhibited in his communications. Reagan had an eloquent and lofty delivery of his ideas, whereas Trump is much plainer spoken -- simple, almost. However, with the current electorate, that might be a very good thing.
2. The forces of globalism and the desires of globalists were not yet so starkly evident in the 1980s, so Reagan embarked on a few political initiatives that advanced globalist interests -- such as NAFTA.
3. Reagan had a baptism-of-fire in politics. Trump has no such experience, although one can argue that all business in New York City is ultimately political.

As I have written elsewhere, the fight is no longer Republican vs. Democrat. The fight is not even Conservative vs. Liberal. The fight is Populism vs. Globalism/Elitism. Trump appears to understand this, and he seems the perfect person to carry forward this fight.

In the 1980's, not many of us (Reagan included) understood the threat of the Globalists and Elitists. Perhaps the John Birch Society did, but they were written off as 'kooks and conspiracy theorists'. Still, they existed then, and when Reagan served his two terms, the Globalists were set back twenty years. Trump may set them back another twenty years.

Always bear in mind that Trump is not a Conservative. He is a Populist and a Nationalist. Populism and Nationalism both contain some Conservative principles, but some Liberal principles as well. To summarize the philosophies, Populism is about seating power in the hands of the people, and Nationalism is about defending the nation and preventing the erasure of the very concept of 'country'. Conservatives will be disappointed, often, by Trump's leanings. But Trump is what we need, right now. We must stabilize the patient that is the United States, before embarking on a rigorous program of fitness and health.

[Lazamataz]

Hope you all enjoy my side-by-side comparison of Trump and Reagan. :)

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[Lazamataz]

[Gaffer]

Maybe we should be calling him “D’ron T” :0)

I think it would catch on!

[Lazamataz]

[Lazamataz]

Er.... no? ;)

[LYDIAONTARIO]

Trump lives in an openly more corrupt world so his style of alpha male, tough talk does not need to be as eloquent as Reagan. We want him to verbally Blast the liberals!

[Lazamataz]

Right. And like I said, perhaps we don’t need a bull in a china shop. Perhaps we need a bull that brings his own breakable china!

[vette6387]

“Trump has his faults, to be sure. He’s brash. He’s mouthy.”

Haven’t see either of these “traits” for a number of weeks. Trump did what he needed to do to get everyone’s attention to get himself elected, and from the look of things, he was singularly successful.

[taildragger]

" so his style of alpha male, tough talk does not need to be as eloquent as Reagan."

It has been so long that we have had an Alpha Male in charge we'd forgotten what it is like eloquent or not.

[Robert DeLong]

I agree with everything except perhaps this:

when Reagan served his two terms, the Globalists were set back twenty years.

Only because of the fact that as soon as George H. W. Bush took his place, the globalist once again were in the driver's seat with a compatriot in arms. After all, he was the first to utter the NWO and people took notice too, though not enough, myself included. Also, as much as I love Reagan he was somewhat duped by the "Free Trade" banner waving too, but not so completely that he wasn't afraid to enact tariffs on the Japanese motorcycles that were flooding into this country and about to completely eviscerate Harley Davidson.

[Lazamataz]

I’ll take a 90% agreement level. :)

[Lazamataz]

Personally, I hope Trump keeps his brash, mouthy nature. Political correctness must die, and triggered students must retreat to Safe Spaces.

[Behind the Blue Wall]

Agreed on everything, but in my humble opinion, let’s drop all of these euphemistic code words and call the war that we’re in by it’s correct name: patriotism versus treason.

[Lazamataz]

Interesting. Pondering....

[Don W]

We need some more Rage Monkey!

[Lazamataz]

Rage Monkey? Could happen. :) He’s a rare sight, but perhaps I can get him to show up.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Trump did what he needed to do to get everyone’s attention”

Bingo! That’s what I thought, too.

[Haiku Guy]

Donald Trump is the non-drinking Boris Yeltsin.

Barack Obama is the leader of the socialist personality cult that ran the Democrat Party off the rails, just as Michael Gorbochev did to the Soviet Union.

Donald Trump is the crass and uncouth populist who will take over and build the new politics, just as Boris Yeltsin did.

[LYDIAONTARIO]

What you did not mention: they were both handsome young men, too! Not metrosexual or trannie or pervs like the last couple of dems in office!