[NorthMountain]

Now I see it as an effective way of leapfrogging a hostile media and controlling the message.

Reagan found ways to get his message past an insanely hostile Big Media.

But Trump is not Reagan, and Reagan's ways are not Trump's ways.

Trump is doing the same thing as Reagan, but by different specific methods.

[RedMonqey]

But Trump is not Reagan, and Reagan's ways are not Trump's ways.

Different times, different measures but your post is spot on.

Trump's style resemble's Reagan's when he was governor of the state of California and he confronted the radical Left head on. And not with the "smiley face, laugh it off" style at the antics of Speaker O'Neil and Teddy Kennedy. Reagan could "go for the throat" but he didn't do it often.

Trump is dealing with the Radicals at a national level and it is unrelenting, so he has to "go for the throat" in kind.

It's not hard to see, at the end of his eight years(if he wants it), Trump outshining Reagan and that ain't gonna be easy.