The Trump-Reagan parallels…Both were mocked and ridiculed, but relentless assault has unexpected consequences

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Tammy Bruce:

The media laugh at any attempt to compare President Trump with former President Ronald Reagan, but there are many similarities, not the least of which are the withering attacks both men endured while running for and as president.

The extraordinary assaults by media, celebrities and jealous politicians against Mr. Trump have been unending. Their attacks include questioning his mental health, comparing him to Hitler (over and over and over again), declaring him a fascist, insisting he’s a modern-day Manchurian candidate, that he’s a traitor (because Russians!), and on and on.

The striking thing about the nature of the attacks is that they’re all personal. They are accusations meant to instill in the listener a sense of danger, provoking an existential fear of the president of the United States.

Now why would someone want to do that? And what could possibly be the result of creating that toxic environment?

Mr. Reagan withstood similar vitriol by the same and usual suspects. The Sun newspaper quoted author Steven Hayward’s recollection of the rhetoric against Mr. Reagan: “Democratic Rep. William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.”

The Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad drew a panel depicting Reagan plotting a fascist putsch in a darkened Munich beer hall. Harry Stein (later a conservative convert) wrote in Esquire that the voters who supported Reagan were like the “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany,” The Sun reported.

After being attacked relentlessly by fellow Republicans during the campaign, Hollywood making their condemnation known, and the media working overtime to demonize Mr. Reagan, it shouldn’t be surprising within 90 days of taking the oath of office, a lunatic shot the president.

The now-freed John Hinckley believed murdering Reagan would impress actress Jodie Foster. “I will admit to you that the reason I’m going ahead with this attempt now is because I just cannot wait any longer to impress you,” the attempted assassin wrote to Ms. Foster.

“I’ve got to do something now to make you understand in no uncertain terms that I am doing all of this for your sake …. Jodie, I’m asking you to please look into your heart and at least give me the chance with this historical deed to gain your respect and love,” concluded the letter, written just hours before he went to the Washington Hilton, shooting the president and several others.

There’s nothing at all in Ms. Foster’s history indicating she expressed a loathing for Reagan. At the time of the shooting, she was a 19-year-old student at Yale. But it’s arguable that the overall media environment had become so toxic, a man with an already tenuous relationship with reality thought shooting the president would be a good idea and appreciated. After all, Mr. Reagan was a doltish, unhinged fascist who would start World War III simply because he was dumb. And evil, of course.

Sound familiar?

So far, the drumbeat against Mr. Trump is virtually identical. In the middle of the campaign, The Washington Post delivered an editorial titled, “Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy.”

The usual Hitler-fascist accusations are a daily narrative. Within the last two weeks, Democratic legislators started openly suggesting the president is mentally ill. The Hill reports, “A growing number of Democrats are openly questioning President Trump’s mental health. …. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) during a weekend interview with CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ said that ‘a few’ Republican colleagues have expressed concern to him about Trump’s mental health.”

NPR also decided to get into the act just a few days ago with an article that mused, “At 70, Trump is the oldest American president to ever take office. Couple his age with a family history of dementia. …” Yeah, subtle.

So on one hand, he’s a Machiavellian traitor cohort of Russian President Vladimir Putin. On the other, he’s a guy who is mentally ill. Oh, heck, let’s make it both. The New Republic, a leftist rag, chimed in with its obscene suggestion that the president is possibly suffering from an undiagnosed case of syphilis. Because … why not?

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Reagan was a real man trump is a real man in fact when compared with Obama Carter was more of a man then Obama at least carter wasnt denouncing america to the world and the varipus nations he vistensed and carter still knows we have 50 states not 57 and carter wasnt riding around on a stupid bicycle like Obama was with John Q Public footing his bill

“He might be strutting around like a peacock today, but he’s gonna be a feather duster tomorrow.” Samuel LeFrak, on Donald Trump.

You’re looking for stellar economic results from a snake oil salesman who has declared bankruptcy on four separate occasions.

When a business venture flew south, Trump simply bailed out and moved on to another business venture, leaving others to take the losses and deal with the wreckage. How does that work when the business in question isn’t a gambling resort, but an entire country?

You should stop comparing this man with Ronald Reagan. There’s nothing they have in common to compare.

Draining the Swamp:

Some 214 years ago, America changed all of human history with the signatures of fifty-six men on a piece of paper. The document they signed was the Declaration of Independence – the text that broke ties with Britain and set the course of the United States of America. There is a single poignant line that many people often skim past. It reads, “And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” The Oath of Office is the Same!

Guarantee Our Second Amendment: (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. We Have the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in each state, period. United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875) was an important United States Supreme Court decision in United States constitutional law, one of the earliest to deal with the application of the Bill of Rights to state governments following the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Martin Luther King “Violence exercised merely in self-defense, all societies, from the most primitive to the most cultured and civilized, accept as moral and legal. The principle of self-defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi… When the Negro (American) uses force in self-defense, he does not forfeit support—he may even win it, by the courage and self-respect it reflects… But violence as a tool of advancement, involving organization in warfare.. poses incalculable perils.

Eliminate Anchor Babies: The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Eliminate Federal Control of the Senate: The Seventeenth Admendment (Amendment XVII) to the United States Constitution established the popular election of United States Senators by the people of the states. The amendment supersedes Article I, §3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.
Intent was Bottom-up government, again limited Government?

The Founders were deeply skeptical of direct popular rule. Representative democracy, they argued, was far superior because the buffer it created between the people and state policy allowed for reflection, reasoned debate, and compromise between opposing”. Who cares about the “Popular Vote”.

Mr. President; “Go for IT”, truly Make America Great Again!!

Lead, Follow or get the Hell out of the Way

@ltcbob:

The left stands in the way of America. When was the last time a leftist democrat espoused freedom?

I expect the when President Trump addresses a joint session of Congress next Tuesday, there will be some boo birds on the left.

The facts that the liberal leftist rag SLIME(Time)MAGAZINE was comparing reagan to Obama

The left stands in the way of America.

The left? Trump supporters no longer know what the term means. It’s been reduced to a propaganda label. They’ve got alternate facts, alternate history, alternate media, and an alternate vocabulary to go along with it.

What the left stands in the way of is an agenda. Conservatives might once have done so, but they’ve forgotten who they were and haven’t yet figured out what the agenda is. They don’t recognize a hostile takeover when they see one. Trump doesn’t embody traditional conservative values. He hasn’t in any area of his life. He mimics them on a reality television show in an effort to keep up ratings.

Alt-right leader expelled from CPAC after organizer denounces ‘fascist group’

Which was described as left-wing:

“There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks,” said Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. “We must not be deceived by [a] hateful, left-wing fascist group.”

There was an irony to Spencer’s expulsion on the same day the conference featured White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, the former CEO of Breitbart News, who once called the site “the platform for the alt-right.”

The irony, of course, will be utterly lost on CPAC, since the infection they just redefined, and then symbolically rejected and ejected, has now overtaken them entirely.

When was the last time a leftist democrat espoused freedom?

Some might see the defense of every woman’s sovereign authority over her own body against those who would use government as a means of stealing control from her as exactly that.

Oh boy, here comes the pro abortion mantra.

The left equating and immoral act with freedom.

It is no wonder America has abandoned the left and their evil agenda.

What is hillary doing today?

The difference between President Trump and obama,
President Trump loves America, obama hates America.

Trump throws another tantrum.

White House blocks CNN, New York Times from press briefing hours after Trump slams media

Putin must be rolling on the floor.

Those delusional demacrats claiming Obama was a scanal free presidentcy Yeah Sure Woo Hoo demac-WHACKS tell me about it please mention the about the big one that got away