Timothy Birdnow

This essay says what I believe as well. He argues that what Trump is doing is essentially what Reagan did in the eighties and I concur, although some of the policies predated Reagan. Containing the Russians, for instance, was a fifties policy devised by George Kennan. But by and large I have to say the essay is absolutely correct. Trump is taking Reaganism and running with it.

Read it all; it's short.

BTW People have forgotten how reviled and despised Ronald Reagan was back in the eighties. The Left had endless investigations of Reagan and tried to get him on the Iran/Contra business (and would have had not Oliver North manned the firewall). Trump is hated even worse because, unlike Reagan who wasn't rolling back the social programs and even gave America an illegal alien amnesty, Trump is going after the citadels of Leftist power in this country. Sun Tzu said to "seize that which the enemy holds dear" and that is exactly what Trump has been doing. Naturally that makes the enemy crazy when you do, which is the whole point.

And sadly many former Reaganites also hate Trump, just as the old guard Republicans hated Reagan. They tried to saddle Reagan with Gerald Ford as his Vice President, or "co-President" as they wanted to make him. Reagan wisely said no but then threw them a bone with George H.W. Bush, who overturned much of the Reagan Revolution along with his son W. Anyone who upsets the power structure is reviled by both parties. Reagan became the new norm, so when Trump came along National Review and even the American Spectator turned hard against him. Now both are irrelevant in American Conservative thought these days. 

Trump is becoming the new norm. And we are watching the Nevertrumpers fade into the ashbin of history. 

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