Posted on 07/20/2018 8:55:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“President Trump isn’t “widely hated”
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I see NO Similarities at all!
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GunnyG@PlanetWTF?
TRUMP.45 IF? We Can Keep Him???
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>>Were there Reagan supporters or cabinet members who were harassed when they eat at restaurants?<<
That was my point but IIRC he did get a LOT of heat from the GOP — but he called them out on it. But he also coined the Reagan Rule so I don’t recall how he handled dissension in the ranks.
Anyone a bit older remember?
Sure he isn't. And Hillary isn't hated either.
That's because, prior to Trump, we've had 28 years of treasonous, globalist, open borders presidents who have cultivated an absolute attitude of violence and anarchy.
We've been enabling liberal insanity for decades.
When Reagan was in Office the demoncratic party still had some moderate to conservative members....
Like Islam, the democrats have radicalized....
Hated for pretty much the same reason, he wants to take away their slaves (illegal aliens).
One other point. A larger percentage of the population still had a moral compass in the 1980s. Robert Bork wrote a book on our direction since then,
Please take note too how many normals revere him as well. That should tell you something right there.
Exactly. This is where the knee-slapper, “but the democrats were the conservatives and the republicans were the liberals then” bullcrap is typically tossed onto the room.
When only half do, but all libs do, which do you think is more telling?
Yes, I failed to mention the Martyr Syndrome.
Worked for liberal icon Kennedy, too.
IMO Lincoln could have prevented the ‘civil war’ but choose political expediency instead.
I suspect he calculated it would be short and relatively bloodless. He was wrong.
Second worst president in US history.
Really? I understand that a lot of liberals hated Reagan, but his policies had some support from Democrats in Congress and the media didn't have the kind of unified and intense hatred of Reagan that they have for Trump.
There was more of a continuum or spectrum in those days. Network news and major newspapers couldn't express the degree of animosity that Mother Jones or The Nation could. Now they can.
Prevent it how?
If you want a different take on Lincoln I recommend the short book, “The Deification of Lincoln”, by Ira Cardiff. I came across this about a year ago. It was written in 1943 ,And it was not a positive view of Lincoln that has persevered since the end of the Civil War and beyond.
You can fins it at Amazon and probably Books a Million.
That should tell you something right there.
That tells me nothing. For over a century, Lincoln was respected and even revered in the Northern and Western part of the country, particularly by Republicans. He wasn't that popular with Democrats.
Now that the Northeast and West Coast are Democrat strongholds and the South is largely Republican, Democrats are appealing to Northerners and Republicans to Southerners, so some old attitudes seep from party to party.
But you do realize that it was in Obama's political interest to play up the Lincoln connection, since they both found a home in Illinois. It was a way of winning votes.
I don't recall any great interest in Lincoln from the Clintons or most other Democrats (Mario Cuomo may have been an exception because he had advisors telling him that he was Lincoln reincarnated).
Earth to CNN, a whole lot of stuff got done before the phone was invented. Censuses were even taken. Polls were done. The old fashioned way. By walking.
Just dropping by this thread to recommend the book I’m reading.
“Abraham Lincoln: A Life” by Michael Burlingame is a masterful 2 volume biography. Exhaustively researched and well-written, it is as fine a book as I’ve ever read.
Thanx. I enjoyed this. Very informative.
The Hour of Peril: The Secret Plot to Murder Lincoln Before the Civil War
No Southern states voted for Lincoln...they were all Democrat and KKK racist types ...
And...
many owned blck slaves...
OH NOEZ...
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