That's precisely how President Reagan operated, especially during his first term.
The MSM-Democrats were uniformly negative. He couldn't do anything right, and every single thing he announced, the MSM-Democrats said would never work, starting with the PATCO strike, through his strategy for handling the USSR, including SDI (Star Wars).
Every bit of positive economic news was minimized and reported grudgingly. Every positive jobs report was bundled with an equal number of words saying the jobs were hamburger-flipper jobs, or that the decreasing unemployment rate was raising the "specter of inflation" (which never happened).
He ignored the Left and the MSM, which I believe is why the Democrats took to calling him stupid, in various ways, including Tip O'Neill (Speaker of the House) calling him an "amiable dunce" on camera, on national television. They thought he had to be a dunce if he didn't see that he had to kow-tow to them.
Slowly but surely, the signs that we were on the right track became obvious. Everyone could see that things were improving.
But the MSM-Democrats kept trying, and in RWR's second term, they drew blood with Iran-Contra. Even then, President Reagan kept on plugging, not wavering from his three big goals: turning the economy around, rebuilding the military, and ending the cold war.
He accomplished all three, and lived long enough to see the Berlin Wall fall, just as he demanded, in person.
Thanks for that summary of RR’s two terms. I lived through that time and you are exactly right. But I did not have Free Republic or conservative radio to help me understand what was happening. Looking back at it, it became very clear to me what had happened.
In addition to the examples you cite, one thing I remember; there were NO homeless people prior to RR, then when he was in office, homelessness was a major national problem. Then when Clinton became president, there again was no homelessness.
“He ignored the Left and the MSM, which I believe is why the Democrats took to calling him stupid, in various ways, including Tip O’Neill (Speaker of the House) calling him an “amiable dunce” on camera, on national television. They thought he had to be a dunce if he didn’t see that he had to kow-tow to them.”
The “amiable dunce” comment did not come from Tip O’Neill, it came from Democrat “wise man” Clark Clifford at a Georgetown dinner parties in 1981, who was later implicated in a banking scandal. Never happened on camera...
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