Wednesday 09 April 2025 11:13:16 AM CDT

Thinking about the Ronald Reagan era seems strange at times as I wasn't yet born when it happened. President Trump seems to some to be the Reagan 2.0 but the differences between them are as different as the times they lived in. Ronald Reagan was elected easily in the wake of the disastrous Carter presidency. The country was in bad shape - Nixon had ended the Vietnam was and punished for it by being ousted by way of the Watergate affair. Not that Nixon was a terribly great president in any other way but it was a tumultuous time and any president would have had a hard time.

President Trump was elected for the second time after an even greater disaster than Jimmy Carter could have imagined. Not only was the national debt growing by a trillion dollars every hundred days or so but the cancer that began with Clinton and got no treatment from Bush 43 and accelerated under Obama had spread and in his first four years President Trump was under assault from election day. Lawfare against him personally and against his attempts to address some of the major governmental and societal problems resulted in miminal success. Even being able to appoint Supreme Court judges was less than effective as one of them would prove to be the biggest disappointment since David Souter. Roberts is pretty bad as well but occasionally manages to get it somewhat right - Barrett talked a good game at her confirmation but quickly went south.

I was suspicious of her but she said all the right words and her record was decent. I wasn't looking for another Sandra Day O'Connor but I expected better than what she turned out to be. Of course Roberts said the right things and started out pretty well but something happened. Kennedy was pretty good until that one and the reasons I've heard for it are plausible but it doesn't make it right. Why Roberts folded on Obamacare almost makes me think someone has something but maybe he's just spineless.

MagaHurtz@MyndCryme

At any rate President Trump was successfully ousted through a combination of just enough fraud in the right places and a fairly successful job of character assassination as the state-run media still enough influence to deprive him of a few votes. The second time around they tried to kill him at least a couple of times and tried to put him in prison and tried to impoverish him. Nothing worked and he inherited an even bigger mess than he had the first time.

For Ronald Reagan the two main problems were the economy and the perceived threat from the Evil Empire. A product of his times he probably believed that the Soviet Union was planning to one day attack and overrun the USA and our defenses were in a sorry state. He managed to turn the ecomomy around and made considerable progress in rebuilding the armed forces but it took most of the first term. Things were good enough through the second term that his vice-president was elected handily - only to squander everything.

President Trump seems to see through the globalist mythology and acts accordingly. Putting in place probably the best cabinet of any president in modern times he has been able to engage multiple threats simultaneously. The Secretary of Defense if pulling weeds in the ranks - not enough generals fired so far but it's early. For now his attempts to eliminate the mentally ill troops is being blocked by judges (who have not the authority but for now the administration is playing along) and if those are the only major problem there are ways to persuade them to leave, safely and legally.

For now the Enemy is focused on the tariffs issue. The fact that even as I write this the targets are coming to bargain suggests that it will now only go well but may turn out better than planned. As legal attacks have failed - except for bits of sand being thrown into the gears - and slander and lies in what remains of the state-run media are having no effect it seems that the economy is the only possible opening. If disaster can be avoided there and we aren't involved in a war VP Vance should have an easy time getting elected. I hope he does better preserving and building on what has been accomplished.

The other notable similarity between Presidents Reagan and Trump is that both were shot by a would-be assassin. President Regan was in more danger from the injury actually inflicted but had President Trump not turned his head at just the right moment he would be dead. Whether or not Hinckley was a tool directed in the usual manner or merely a deranged person it hard to say - others know more about such things than I do. There is no such doubt about the attacks on President Trump. I would not be surprised if there are more, or at least plots in progress even now. But Donald Trump seems to be a man of destiny, perhaps surpassing such men as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. If that is the case Isaiah 54:17 may apply. The tongues which rose him continue to babble maniacally but with little effect.














































Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes. Ronald Reagan