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Republicans have dumped Reagan for Trump
thehill ^ | 05/12/2021 | Albert Hunt

Posted on 05/12/2021 6:44:46 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The choice between Elise Stefanik and Liz Cheney for a House Republican leadership post serves as a proxy war between Donald Trump and Ronald Reagan for the soul of the Party.

Reagan and Cheney — and Republicans generally — appear certain to be the losers.

For decades after he left office, Ronald Reagan was a glue that united Republicans, just as Franklin D. Roosevelt was for Democrats. Now Trump dominates the Republican Party; Liz Cheney had the audacity to tell the truth: that Trump lost the last election, which many of her House GOP colleagues are too cowardly to acknowledge.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: albertchunt; alberthunt; cuck; cuckpublican; dumped; reagan; republicans; therealcuck; trump
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lol...is Albert Hunt still alive?


21 posted on 05/12/2021 6:51:59 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This is ridiculous and not even close to the truth. Reagan was the Trump of his time.
22 posted on 05/12/2021 6:52:03 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I like to think of Reagan and Trump as the bookends of the Republican Party, sadly the GOPe is outside of them.


23 posted on 05/12/2021 6:52:45 AM PDT by Sparky1776
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reagan was good; Trump was just better.

I hope the day of big-government Republicans is fading fast so we can have real, effective opposition to the Commie-Rat party. Time to move decisively against the corrupt, moral degenerate Rat Party. The GOP Rat-lite wing gives them too much cover.


24 posted on 05/12/2021 6:53:23 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thdieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Funny how Democrats are always so concerned about Republicans and never seem to be introspective. Why do you suppose that is?


25 posted on 05/12/2021 6:53:53 AM PDT by Obadiah
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Reagan and Trump are on the same side. Liz Cheney is on Team George Herbert Walker Bush.


26 posted on 05/12/2021 6:54:48 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: cuban leaf

“I actually think Trump was even better than Reagan.”

Yes. Love both, but Trump was more effective — and Trump didn’t give amnesty to illegals.


27 posted on 05/12/2021 6:54:53 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence - Prof. Dean Alfange)
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Yes, it is a fact that Trump lost the election.

It is also about to be revealed that Biden didn’t win the election either.

That’s where the people are at, not where either factions of the GOP are at.


28 posted on 05/12/2021 6:54:56 AM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: Sparky1776; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

Unfortunately, the books between the bookends have already been colored in.


29 posted on 05/12/2021 6:55:09 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Cheney was not Reagan in any way. Dick Cheney, her father, HATED Reagan.


30 posted on 05/12/2021 6:55:16 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Put Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump in a primary today and I am voting for Trump.

Reagan was a great president, an eloquent speaker, and a polished politician. Donald Trump wasn't a politician at all -- which made him far more effective as President.

I agreed with about 95% of what Reagan did as President. I can honestly say it was damn near 100% of what we got from Trump.

31 posted on 05/12/2021 6:55:28 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: cuban leaf

In all fairness, if Ronald Regan hadn’t deteriorated so much he would have finished far better.

The too Low Temperature Blood he was given after he was shot really shocked his system.


32 posted on 05/12/2021 6:56:31 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: PGR88

Splitting hairs within Uniparty Team B. Cheney or Stephanick, Boehner or Ryan? Oh my, such monumental decisions. The fate of the nation hangs in the balance, which shade of GOP treachery will it be for own new leader? What a crock. Hell, for Republican rubes this beats bread and circuses.


33 posted on 05/12/2021 6:56:39 AM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

LOL. Liz would have supported Bush, not Reagan.


34 posted on 05/12/2021 6:57:15 AM PDT by Durbin
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Author fails to see he is among those splitting the party, not Trump.
Exemplified by “audacity to tell the truth: that Trump lost the last election”.
A fair, Reagan-like leader would understand that believing the election was ‘stolen’ is a fair and common perspective, even if one doesn’t share that conclusion. Rather than accommodating this perspective, author berates those who hold it - exactly the divisive rhetoric he portrays himself (and Cheney) as being above.

Yes, Trump lost - because the Constitutional referees ignored what many saw as obvious fraud, and denied him a win.

Reagan would have reached out in empathy & respect of diverse feelings & conclusions.
Cheney & Hunt want to cut off those who observed widespread ‘anomalies’ in real-time and object.


35 posted on 05/12/2021 6:57:28 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (All worry about monsters that'll eat our face, but it's our job to ask why it wants to eat our face.)
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To: bray

And there ya go. That is exactly so. The Bush league has been dumped. Let Republicans be the party ot Trump and Reagan.


36 posted on 05/12/2021 6:57:36 AM PDT by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: cuban leaf

I don’t.

Trump was fantastic.

But you have to measure presidents by their challenges. Reagan had to defeat the Soviet Union without blowing up the world. Yet he did it. In fact, despite the few casualties in Grenada (I don’t think you can put the Marines in Lebanon in the same Cold War category), Reagan defeated the USSR almost without losing a man. This is by far the most titanic military victory in human history, dwarfing Napoleon’s surrounding of the Austrians at Ulm (100,000 surrendered) by vast orders of magnitude.


37 posted on 05/12/2021 6:57:52 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix) )
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Al Hunt is a moron on PBS. He compares Liz Cheney to Reagan? When Bush and Cheney were in office, they talked about how different Bush was from Reagan.


38 posted on 05/12/2021 6:59:30 AM PDT by TakebackGOP
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The author implies that the exercise to oust cheney impugns Reagan. No sale. Cheney is her own worst enemy, she earned the ouster with her ego, arrogance and inability to actually lead the conference. (Note: you’re not a leader if no one is following you.).

Leftists and their sympathizers are so transparent if you pay attention.


39 posted on 05/12/2021 6:59:39 AM PDT by CheneyClone
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To: ScottinVA

“Trump is far closer to Reagan in terms of policy than 95% of the “leaders” in the GOP.”

And both Reagan and Trump believed in the Constitution and the American people and put America first.


40 posted on 05/12/2021 7:00:49 AM PDT by sijay
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