“Phyllis Schafly, a great Reagan supporter. I wonder, I really wonder if Ronald Reagan was alive, and saw all of this mess, which ring he would toss his hat into.”
Yes, Phyllis was a great Reagan supporter. My mom was a friend, supporter and contributor of hers. Mom in her 50s loaded up a station wagon of activists (some who were later Freepers) from Mpls and joined Phyllis to march on Washington to protest President Reagan on his Supreme Court appointment of Sandra Day O’Connor, a rare mistake for him. I will bet Reagan actually appreciated that.
Phyllis is great and brilliant. I have long disagreed with her on her opposition to free trade. Trump leans that same way and so support of him is shocking, but explainable.
Phyllis was still fully sharp and healthy when we saw her a couple of years ago.
Her conflicts on her board are probably no different than the divide that has developed here and elsewhere over Trump. He is a divider.
Reagan was not among the conservatives suspicious of free trade. Back to your point, if Reagan were here today, he would not, in my opinion, be with Trump who is quite his opposite in many, many ways.
If Reagan was young now and running, Trump along with the Trump supporters here would be ripping him ruthlessly. I hate to even wonder what name Trump would have put on him.
The words you post, are well chosen. So many times here at Free Republic, it seems people just want to shout and be nasty. You look at the real world. and understand it must be a hard choice for a mom like Phylis of the Eagles Forum, to take a hard stand on an issue she believes. You understand Ronald Reagan, and in many ways he had the Cruz Gene of bearing hard and sticking to the Constitution, and less government, and at other times he had the flare and charisma of an outsider, like Trump. A bit of the positive characteristics of both men. We do hope the process is clean, and no under handed forcing upon the people the will of an elite party system. That is how we do it in Mexico, it is party rule, not the rule of the people.