Trump and North Korea: Proof The Reagan Doctrine Works

Tired of all this Winning yet? – It turns out that not everybody in California is crazy after all. On Tuesday, the San Diego County board of supervisors became the latest local government to vote to support the Trump Administration’s lawsuit challenging the Golden State’s sanctuary state law. The County joins neighboring Orange County and cities like San Juan Capistrano, Los Alamitos, Huntington Beach, Aliso Viejo, Mission Viejo and Escondido in opposing the state’s open borders law.

All of the cities and counties listed above are, of course, at the southern end of the state, and thus bear the brunt of the negative impacts of open borders policies advocated by Governor Jerry Brown and the state’s openly seditious Democrat Party. Some may characterize these actions as futile gestures, but the intervention into lawsuits like this by impacted parties play a key role in the judicial process. In this case, they show that there are still people in California who care about the good of the country as a whole, which is a very gratifying thing indeed.

When you appoint a true strict constructionist justice, you get strict constructionist decisions. – Many observers were surprised on Tuesday when the Supreme Court issued an immigration-related decision in which Trump appointee Neil Gorsuch sided with the four liberals on the court to deal the administration a setback. The case revolved around how U.S. deportation law defines a violent crime for the purpose of deporting illegal immigrants to their home country. Gorsuch joined the court’s liberal minority in ruling that the definition was overly vague and thus unenforceable under the Constitution.

Anyone who is surprised by his ruling should make themselves aware that, in 2015, the man Gorsuch replaced on the court, the late Antonin Scalia, ruled that similar language in a law imposing longer prison sentences on repeat offenders was also unconstitutional for the same reason. Thus, while this decision by Gorsuch is inconvenient for the Trump administration, the fact that he ruled as he did should actually be encouraging to anyone who calls themselves a conservative.

Liberals opposed Gorsuch because they believed he would be a down-the-line strict constructionist, like Justice Scalia. Turns out, they were right for once.

“In today’s news, North and South Korean end war, now back to rolling video of a porn star.” – Lost in all the fake news media frenzy over porn stars and Sean Hannity lawyers yesterday was the amazingly consequential announcement by South Korea leaders that they are meeting with the leaders of North Korea this week to change the 65 year-old armistice agreement between the two countries into the formal ending to the state of war between them. After pretty much burying the story yesterday, the fake news media and Democrat paid liars will no doubt spend today trying to tell us all how Barack Obama somehow deserves credit for this amazing turn of events.

The truth, of course, is that everything Obama did related to the situation on the Korean peninsula during his 8 disastrous years in office simply made the situation worse, and this current easing of tensions there is purely President Trump’s doing. Later in the day, the President also announced to the slack-jawed White House press corps of fake journalists that the administration was already engaged with North Korean emissaries in negotiations “at very high levels.” Early this morning, the President tweeted that Secretary of State nominee Mike Pompeo had actually met with North Korea’s Crazy Little Fat Guy late last week, characterizing the meeting as having gone “very smoothly.”:

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea last week. Meeting went very smoothly and a good relationship was formed. Details of Summit are being worked out now. Denuclearization will be a great thing for World, but also for North Korea!

Obviously, we are still a long way from real denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, but there is real progress taking place in that direction, a progress that our three prior administrations spent a quarter of a century failing to advance. There is no magic to any of this – what Trump has been doing with the Crazy Little Fat Guy is promoting the Reagan Doctrine of “Peace through strength.” 24 years of appeasement policies only emboldened and enabled the succession of three different Kim dictators to pursue their nuclear ambitions, pretty much with impunity.

Now that a leader of the United States has demonstrated clearly that this country is willing to confront not only North Korea, but also its benefactors in China on the matter, we see this sudden desire to engage in real negotiations. Amazing how that works. Well, amazing to liberals and fake journalists, anyway.

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I don't know how thw "Reagan Doctrine" applies here. The Reagan Doctrine specifically had to do with assisting resistances and counter-revolution in Marxist countries, instead of using our own forces, we provide the mens for the Contras and Mujahedin to roll back the Commies. That doesn't really apply to North Korea, and certainly doesn't apply to the current Middle East setup.

From Wikipedia:
Under the Reagan Doctrine, the United States provided overt and covert aid to anti-communist guerrillas and resistance movements in an effort to "roll back" Soviet-backed communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The doctrine was designed to diminish Soviet influence in these regions as part of the administration's overall strategy to end the Cold War.

I think the writer was referring to Reagan’s tough, no nonsense attitude. Appeasement gets us nothing but gives the enemy time to develop deadly weapons and become more of a threat. Trump has signaled that the days of appeasement are over.

I think the writer was referring to Reagan’s tough, no nonsense attitude.

Agreed, but the phrase "Reagan Doctrine" has a specific meaning.

It is also a counter to the more widely known Brezhnev Doctrine: "When forces that are hostile to socialism try to turn the development of some socialist country towards capitalism, it becomes not only a problem of the country concerned, but a common problem and concern of all socialist countries." Which basically means the Communists would take countries and never give any up. The writer should use a different phrase to express himself on this matter.

The philosophy of realpolitik works wherever it’s tried. Direct, no-BS, bilateral discussions and negotiations, based on practical considerations, i.e., no UN-brokered “agreements”, between two interested parties stands a far better chance of success than any multi-lateral agreement and they tend to last a lot longer. Rather flies in the face of the globalist, “We are the World” philosophy, doesn’t it?

Where’s Trump’s Nobel Prize? I mean obama got one for doing nothing which allowed the destruction of at least 2 countries by ISIS and the migration/invasion of Europe by cavemen which will ruin it forever.

Trump has managed to bring rocket man to the table agreeing to get rid of his nuclear weapons and did it in just over a year. I think they should rescind the obummer Nobel award since he caused world wide death and destruction and give it to the person who actually did something good for the world; President Donald J. Trump.

If both sides here are sincere and honest in discussions here there is great potential for the whole world but N Korea has the most to gain.

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