Posted on 01/22/2021 5:30:45 AM PST by Ebenezer
far better than Reagan in my opinion.
He was doomed from the start when he made GHWB his Vice President.
I never thought it would be possible, but, yes, Trump was better than Reagan.
I think Trump was better than Reagan. He got the swamp dwellers to reveal their hidden agenda by getting them too angry to lie straight
Trump left Reagan in the dust.
One idea I’ve had in my mind over the last recent while is that had it not been for the backdrop of the Cold War during Reagan’s first term, you wonder if the Rockefeller GOPe wing of the party would have tried in 1984 something like what the Lincoln Project people did this past year in terms of getting Reagan dumped after one term.
yes far better than reagan, because these are not reagan’s times... we needed a street fighter and got one, but the mr. t or tyranny clobbered us...
we will be stronger for it and return.
the rye or the kaiser...
I cannot say better, but he was the Reagan of our time. The first non globalist pro-American people president in three decades.
I like Paul Gottfried but basing an entire article around criticizing National Review is like going after people who thought the Sun revolved around the Earth. I doubt NR survives another 4 years let alone 8.
Trump didnt work with pelosi?
Trump tried to met her halfway, Pelosi wanted her whole agenda passed and refused to budge
You have to remember there was no 24 hrs news in 1980.. and the swamp was not as corrupt...
But the GOP hated Reagan also...it was the southern blue dog democrats that got Reagan's tax cuts into law...
Different time two great presidents
Most people only get one good president in there life time
Think about how bad most of them really are..both democrat and republican
Reagan set us on a course for demographic destruction. Amnesty gave us America minus Americans... which cannot work.
He was George Washington.
bump
Exactly!
Paul Gottfried wrecking National Review again. His quick rundown of the differing situations faced by Reagan and Trump is really good. Both men drew the ire of the GOPe, but Reagan was able to get his agenda largely through a Democrat-controlled House. Nobody lost his job for supporting Reagan. Things are different now.
NR must be destroyed. The only one there still worth reading is VDH.
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Both were great.
Unfortunately Trump had his second term stolen from him by the Washington establishment. That awful establishment was hardly a twinkle in the eye when Reagan was president.
Hard not to appreciate both.
The perfect is the enemy of the good. Reagan was a great President, but he still had the craziness in Lebanon, an inability to rein in federal spending, and the appointment of the neocon globalist GHW Bush as VP, who had no base in the Party outside K Street lobbyists and the UN. Trump probably accomplished more in four years but did not have Reagan’s ability to laugh off the hate of the leftists and too often focused on small, inconsequential things that hurt his position. Both of them are easily in the Top Ten best president and stride as giants compared to the Bushes, who are really two of America’s worst presidents. JFK, for instance, despite his personal deficiencies, was a far better president than either Bush - the space program, fiscal restraint, the appointment of a relatively conservative Byron White to the Supreme Court. But JFK’s worst mistake was the same for Reagan - the pick of his vice-president.
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