Posted on 04/28/2016 10:52:33 AM PDT by winoneforthegipper
Yes, says Bill Galston, contending that “Donald Trump is waging and winning the third major revolution in the Republican Party since World War II.” First there was Eisenhower reconciling the GOP with the New Deal. Then there was Reagan, who wrought a “remarkable fusion of supply-side economics, anti-Soviet internationalism and social conservatism.” And now? Excerpt:
Mr. Trump’s candidacy has showed that the cadre of genuine social conservatives is smaller than long assumed, that grass-roots Republican support for large military commitments in the Middle East has withered, and that the business community is politically homeless.
So it has come to this: A mercantilist isolationist is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination. Whether or not he goes on to win the general election, the Republican Party cannot return to what it once was. The Reagan era has ended, and what comes next is anyone’s guess.
Read the whole thing. Well, he’s right about that, but instead of giving Trump credit for killing Reaganism, I think we would do well to think about the extent to which Reaganism died a natural death from old age, and the extent to which its heirs killed it.
(Excerpt) Read more at theamericanconservative.com ...
Yes.
Another liberal who knows all about us.
Bush I killed Reaganism.
So u did not read did ya, cruzbait?
No, it will be a rebirth.
You beat me to it. One man and one man alone killed Reaganism. His name is George H.W. Bush. I will dance and drink beer the day he releases his mortal coil.
From my point of view, Trump exemplifies some of the aspects which made many of us fall in love with what Ronald Reagan represented - Proud to be an American, optimism, a "can do" attitude and the recognition that, to win, on a national and international level - negotiate from a standpoint of strength and from a basis of American exceptionalism.
I would also contend that Reagan was NOT a neo-conservative but many of his poltical "children" are and were.
Trump represents the death of "Bushism" - the elder Bush - namely trying to be a world player, international cop, and overextending the military reach to areas where they shouldn't be involved.
That’s right.
as the author wrote:
Trump didn’t kill Reaganism. He just was the first Republican presidential candidate to notice it was already dead.
Reagan killed Reaganism when he picked Bush I as his VP... hate to break that to everyone, but Reagan himself ensured his revolution would be blunted the second he was out of office with that move.
Life for America has changed a great deal since Reagan. The debt is unsustainable. The ISIS was born and due to reagans amnesty, we have illegals pouring into the country and businesses leaving America in droves. All things Reagan didn’t contend with. We should be so lucky to have it as easy like 1980.
The GOPe killed Reaganism a long time ago. The GOPe is now killing the GOP. Trump represents the base and has the GOPe in a yuuuge panic. And he’s actually rebuilding the Reagan Coalition.
grass-roots Republican support for large military commitments in the Middle East has withered ... So it has come to this: A mercantilist isolationist is the odds-on favorite to win the Republican presidential nomination. .
It must be remembered that once Reagan understood the complexities of Lebanan after Khobar towers, we got out. Conservatives support a strong military. Death and destruction in the middle east, however, was a neocon program, not a conservative program.
And I fail to see how someone who is asking our allies to bear their fair burden is an "isolationist."
What a load.. Trump is more and an extension of Reagan in to the current times...Reagan is a pro American policy vs internationalism that is detrimental to the american people
When Reagan walked out on the nuclear missile talks in Iceland and just told the pilots to kick the tires and light the fires to get out of the situation, and then got everything he wanted, it was felt nobody should be that effective in government. It's just not complicated enough.
Yes. We are all positivists now.
Indeed.
I agree. Reagan was the right man for the time but his legacy really died with the end of the Cold War, and what better tribute and legacy could there be?
Now Trump is the right man for a different time, actually 5-10 years too late, but we all know who to thank for that. Now that we have him, it’s time to support him in making American Great Again, a goal the Gipper would absolutely support.
A former policy advisor to President Clinton and presidential candidates, Bill Galston is an expert on domestic policy, political campaigns, and elections.His current research focuses on designing a new social contract and the implications of political polarization.
We found that information on the website of the Brookings Institution, which has been providing unbiased left-wing advocacy to whomever will pay since Woodrow Wilson was president.
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