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Is Trump the Second Coming of Reagan?
The New Yorker | May 18, 2018 | Susan B. Glasser

Posted on 05/18/2018 8:32:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Link only due to copyright issues: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/is-trump-the-second-coming-of-reagan


TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: korea; mediawingofthednc; newyorker; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; reagan; russia; smearmachine; susanbglasser; thenewyorker; trump
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1 posted on 05/18/2018 8:32:59 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Link to article: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/is-trump-the-second-coming-of-reagan


2 posted on 05/18/2018 8:33:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m going to assume that The New Yorker thinks this is a bad thing.


3 posted on 05/18/2018 8:35:44 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is equal parts Reagan and Truman, with a dash of Andrew Jackson.


4 posted on 05/18/2018 8:36:40 AM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In some way yes, in some ways no.

Rather then try and compare him to anyone, just have to realize Trump is his own special type of President unlike anything that has come before.


5 posted on 05/18/2018 8:36:49 AM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s beyond Magnus in some ways

Many ways actually


6 posted on 05/18/2018 8:37:00 AM PDT by wardaddy (Reward for young runaway goes by Kanye fancies hisself a poet...if seen contact his overseer@DNC.org)
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To: miss marmelstein

I would like to think that Trump is the second coming of something more than that....


7 posted on 05/18/2018 8:39:18 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Donald Trump is The Echo of our Framers' President, the embodiment of the Framers’ ideal president; he is the outcome of a process that sought men of character and accomplishment for our nation’s highest office.
8 posted on 05/18/2018 8:39:43 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Some people will never learn... Yes, I did read the mishmash article.
9 posted on 05/18/2018 8:39:49 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: nikos1121

I love him but I’m not going that far, lol.


10 posted on 05/18/2018 8:40:05 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Leaning Right

“Trump is equal parts Reagan and Truman, with a dash of Andrew Jackson.”

And part Great Pumpkin


11 posted on 05/18/2018 8:40:13 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s a mealy-mouthed story, but at least it does not say that Trump is very similar to Hitler.


12 posted on 05/18/2018 8:40:50 AM PDT by karnage
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No. Reagan was hated by some parts of the GOP, and had to work hard to bring it together (Saddling us with the Bush family at the top of the ticket); Trump has parts of the GOP actively trying to ruin him and/or remove him from office, and the rest of it saying nothing. He’s on his own. Reagan at least had some party support.


13 posted on 05/18/2018 8:40:53 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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Just remember...for all the good he did, Reagan also gave us FOPA and amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.


14 posted on 05/18/2018 8:43:22 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Government employees and welfare recipients are both net tax consumers. Often for life.)
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To: cdcdawg

The real question is this: Were there any available between Reagan and Trump? Names please. Why didn’t they rise?


15 posted on 05/18/2018 8:43:38 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: karnage

Adolf Hitler was a National Socialist, like Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and many other Democrats. President Trump is a capitalist.


16 posted on 05/18/2018 8:43:49 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Leaning Right

You nailed it.


17 posted on 05/18/2018 8:48:03 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That would be a very short list. All of those GOP governors from the late 80’s and early 90’s, but none of them could surpass Bob Dull. Only George II could make it to the top.


18 posted on 05/18/2018 8:48:18 AM PDT by cdcdawg
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Trump is Trump.
He cuts his own path.
The path back to the Constitution after the Kenyanesian Usurpation and the attempted coup is rocky and difficult.
He is having to battle the Ministry of Propaganda, the Democrats, the Bush League Republicans, most of the federal government, including the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc., on top of dealing with the rest of the world.
If he restores the rule of law, he may surpass all but Washington.


19 posted on 05/18/2018 8:48:31 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If he’s around at the end of 2024...I don’t think you can make any comparison to Reagan, or any previous President.

I think the North Korea problem will be finalized, and the US troops removed from North Korea. I think most of US troops will be removed from Germany, and repositioned in Poland and the UK. I think that a major effort to build a UK relationship (with May having moved on) will occur after BREXIT. I think that the SK/NK relationship will be a major factor. I think that by the end of 2019...Trump will be a factor in Venezuela, by helping to remake the government there. I also think that Iran will be forced into a corner, with some type of banking failure, with a coup of some type....with the US building on a new relationship there.

The surface hasn’t even been scratched yet.


20 posted on 05/18/2018 8:49:46 AM PDT by pepsionice
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