The funny thing is that Obama has no charisma and little apparent intellect. He has to rely on every technical advantage and cheat every way he can.
Reagan didn’t need a super database to unite the nation in a coalition unmatched in history. He understood America and had a POSITIVE message. He would still win in a landslide tomorrow. People want to believe in a positive vision.
If the GOP would just grow some balls and push a bold, conservative message, they would stand a chance. Parties don’t succeed based on leadership; leadership succeeds based on a competent team.
The vision is crafted in those smokey back rooms and then everyone can get on the same page. It’s not really that hard. It’s called teamwork— something the GOP seems to have forgotten.
This isn’t Obama, he’s just the current/most recent beneficiary.
This is Ickes. Who’s just about the nastiest piece of work out there (following in his Dad’s footprints in that regard). Ickes is a big Clinton partisan too. It’s going to be damn interesting to see how this is leveraged in the 2016 primaries if Hillary has a decent challenge.
The Reagan era is ancient history. Politics has changed from that day so significantly it is not even the same thing as it was then.