[Elsie]

On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, Reagan fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from federal service for life. ...

The civil service ban on the remaining strike participants was lifted by President Bill Clinton in 1993.

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Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (1968) - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_Air_Traffic_Controllers_Organization_(1968)

[Elsie]

  The President invoked the law that striking government employees forfeit their jobs, an action that unsettled those who cynically believed no President would ever uphold that law.

President Reagan's director of the United States Office of Personnel Management at the time, Donald J. Devine, argued:

"When the president said no...American business leaders were given a lesson in managerial leadership that they could not and did not ignore. Many private sector executives have told me that they were able to cut the fat from their organizations and adopt more competitive work practices because of what the government did in those days. I would not be surprised if these unseen effects of this private sector shakeout under the inspiration of the president were as profound in influencing the recovery that occurred as the formal economic and fiscal programs."^[13]

 

[Neoliberalnot]

Reagan and Trump may have a similar fortitude. Reagan was quiet and resolute and no doubt the best President of the twentieth century. Trump standing his ground for US citizens will put him right there with Reagan.