Posted on 11/14/2016 2:53:12 AM PST by 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:
There are differences, of course:
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.
And obama is sitting there trying to sit that way too but it’s not working and he looks stiff and obviously intimated by Trumps manliness.
I thought we settled that years ago!
ARRRRGHHHHHH
I typo’d ‘coarser’ into ‘courser’, transforming the thought from an age of vitriol and vulgarity, to an age of swift horses!
Ima tickle you now. :)
Rest assured, no response will ever be forthcoming for this person. The last thing I would want to do is encourage him.
Paul Ryan is saying that there won’t be any deportation.
The Traitors are already organizing.
Now that I’ve seen your wife, I feel it’s inappropriate for you to make tickling remarks! Can you find her armpits?
I agree with your assessment, although Trump faced and defeated longer odds. The Carter camp, while wrong headed in crucial ways, was at least American for the most part (setting aside Zbignew B-ski), and Trump took on pretty much the entire world excepting Israel, Russia and the very thin line of European patriots. Carter was inept. Clinton is utterly corrupt. Trump defeated a bigger and more malicious beast. A lawless and murderous beast. Carter, whatever his deficiencies, was not like that.
And yes, Trump is a buffet moderate. I could relax more with Reagan, as we knew his mind. Trump is more unpredictable. I think that will lessen as time goes by and Trump becomes President Trump. The only thing he has left to prove is a magnificent presidency, and I think he will be driven to do that. Weeds may grow on the golf courses, and we will see the first truly diligent, savvy, America first POTUS administration sine January 19, 1989.
I think Trump is more cynical than Reagan. Reagan was not naive, but he did actively seek to see the best in people. Trump sees them as they are. If they want to show their best face, they had better demonstrate their best behavior.
Trump will distrust, verify, and lock down. I don’t see a mewling, smirking George Herbert Walker Bush analog sliding up through the Bohemian Grove on the Trump’s flank without Trump being keenly aware, and ready to neutralize at the opportune time. There is a superficial semblance of that comparison between Reagan and Bush #1 and Trump and the somewhat neocon Pence, but Pence is distinguished as a man of honor, a proven asset, and the two seem to genuinely like and trust each other. Pence was also Trump’s selection - not the Party’s, so, for these reasons I am more optimistic about Pence.
“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.
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The campaign itself has changed Trump. He is a deeper, more serious, and more experienced man than the candidate we saw at first. The crucible has refined him. His many qualities remain, with much of the eccentric fluff burned off.
He goes from strength to strength.
Trump has vowed to protect America from illegal immigration....
Yes, but it requires satellite topography.
So on Saturday night, you make a moon landing.
Reagan didn’t have Facebook or Twitter at his disposal. I suspect he would have used them too, maybe a bit more eloquently, but with equal effect.
Very well written, Laz. I hope you don’t mind if I send it on to other like-minded folks in my e-mail list.
Then I hope you two are very happy!
Well said
We can be purists about our conservatism and lose the country or we can safe the country and then work on the conservatism
Excellent!
The fight is more than globalist vs nationalist.
It is good vs evil.
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