“And circumstances constantly change. Reagan himself, if he were living today, might be a fish out of water now.”
You make some good points. Certainly the man must fit the times to catch the kind of lightning in a bottle that RR did.
My observation was meant to be more focused on the man and not so much the time, maybe thinking that he was a man for all seasons. I think you may be right though. Thanks.
Yeah... different lightning, different bottle. The heavy defense industry backing of Reagan would not apply in this “post Star Wars” era. The emergency of the moment is the chaos wrought by eight years of Obama grade Damn-o-crats, exacerbated by the ISIS terrorism problem.
If Trump is found to address this issue well, then he’s probably also going to come out of this thing with a substantial halo. I could easily envision a plan between Trump and Putin to squash ISIS flatter than a bug, with Russian oil there to back us up in case Saudi Arabia pitches too big a fit. Old enemies aren’t necessarily new enemies. Nobody in 1940 could envision the modern day Japan, which came roaring back into robust civility from the trouncing it got because America was such a gracious conqueror. America lives in a very dynamic world.