Posted on 06/28/2024 10:31:26 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Donald Trump was quick to name-check predecessor Ronald Reagan in Thursday’s presidential debate against President Joe Biden.
Trump wasted no time in bringing up Reagan, who is beloved by almost all old school Republicans, and others, to seemingly make his points on abortion. The more significant callback to “Morning in America” was the former president’s ever-so-brief, and not-so-surprising, outline of his economic agenda.
The economy, and more so, inflation, was the first topic broached by CNN hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash at the debate. In the opening lines of the matchup, Trump repeatedly hammered President Joe Biden’s economy and called on viewers to recall the pre-pandemic years of his term and sweep him back into office.
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Are you better off today than you were 5 years ago? (4 years ago was 2020 and china virus)
Yep, unfortunately for anybody under age 40 (most of the electorate), they were either not even born in the 1980’s or too young to care. So, bringing up the 1980’s and Ronald Reagan mean little more too them than something they read about in some (likely left leaning) textbook.
I don’t know, 1976 brought us Jimmy Carter, and 2020 brought us Joe Biden, both of whom took advantage of a sort of “black swan” series of events to insinuate themselves into office.
Neither was fairly elected. But Biden made Carter seem like a pretty decent sort of person, in retrospect.
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