Posted on 09/13/2023 6:49:13 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
In reality, while Donald Trump’s hard-charging style is a departure from Ronald Reagan’s happy warrior approach, the ideas that underpin Trump’s campaign are building a blue-collar coalition reminiscent of the Reagan era – a development that could actually save the GOP as a national party, rather than destroy it.
Similar to Pence, I am an outspoken evangelical from middle America who came up in politics idolizing Reagan. As chairman of the University of Alabama College Republicans, I used to quote Reagan in nearly every speech, reminding people that “freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
Years later, while working in the Trump White House, I admired that Pence was unashamed to speak openly about his faith. Even now, I respect his willingness to buck what’s politically fashionable, even though I often disagree with him. But I also believe that Pence’s vision for the GOP is the surest path to Republicans never again vying to win a national election.
As Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams late in life, reflecting on the political divisions of their own era, “every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few.”
For far too long, Republicans have been the party of the few. Of entrepreneurs, but not the employees who help bring their ideas to fruition. Of Big Business, but not the workers – often union members – on the assembly lines and shop floors. Of globalization and the idea that lower-cost consumer goods were a worthwhile tradeoff for disappearing livelihoods and vanishing purpose.
The Republican Party’s problems have been both public perception
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And he is correct
This should go down as the defining statement of the 2024 election campaign.
He is correct. Scoundrels like Pence invoke the ‘bearer of Reagan’s legacy’ much like certain cheerleaders invoke George Washington or Churchill when referring to Zelensky.
this is correct...and if you go back a bit further, Reagan perfected something that Nixon was tapping into, as well.
FWIW, we shouldn’t forget that the Teamsters endorsed Reagan in 1980.
Pence is beneath contempt.
Really? I voted for both and am proud I did so.
Agreed.
Our PDJT, The GOAT, believes in us, that’s why we believe in him.
It’s not the other way around.
Pence’s loyalty is not to We The People.
BTTT
Republicans are Whigs
They are the only two Presidents that I had respect for, and still respect to this day. Regan actually was the reason I got involved in politics. I hadn’t participated in elections until Reagan came along.
Pence MAY have his faith-—BUT I KNOW he doesn’t have a SPINE
Yes,DJT understands and admires the middle class and working class. He also understands the nation’s elite and that’s why he’s always thumbing his nose at them.
What is being described is Jacksonian Nationalist Conservatism.
Well said.
Trump applied the ‘sanctimonious’ label to DeSantis but its a more appropriate pejorative for Pence IMO. Pence’s claims of rectitude and principles are simply a facade. You’re right, he’s spineless.
Pence is a nobody except in his own mind...as are a lot of the elected GOP(RINO) they will slowly be voted out in the future as Trump’s legacy...there is no going back.
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