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Ronald Reagan would appreciate Donald Trump's Moxie. Styleally, they are different, but in this respect, all men are different. But, ideologically speaking, there are many similarities.
Reagan often opposed political institutions. The fundamental person in the inner world is against status. He is a conservative/populist Golden Hydraulic in the Republican Party. Don't forget that he almost defeated his presidential nomination in 1976 against the current president Gerald Ford.
He played against candidate Amb again in 1980. George HW Bush and former Texas Governor John Connolly defeated them and performed a Republican remake.
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The president promoted some democratic policies for the "golden age" of the United States in his second term.
For people like Reagan and Trump, it's always the same: outsiders and insiders. Britain and the colonists. Jefferson and Adams. Goldwater and Rockefeller. Conservative movement and Republican institutions. Delta House and Omega House. Jedi and the Evil Empire.
President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy waved to the crowd as they rode along Pennsylvania Avenue during the first parade in Washington, D.C. on January 20, 1981.
Bill Clinton once said: "Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans want to line up." There is actually nothing farther than the facts. Democrats love power and all their abuse and fall behind anyone who has the ability. Republicans fall in love with the idea of individual-centeredness.
Republicans cherish Reagan and Trump now because both of them adopt their conservative thinking.
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Reagan had a stark example of trying to destroy what he called the "evil empire." He wanted to entrust it to the "heap of ashes" of history. Meanwhile, political institutions support the “détente”, which is coexisting, and Reagan is challenging this way of thinking even though the Soviets devoured the rest of the world.
The Berlin Wall fell due to Reagan's conservative action.
He wanted to eliminate the education and energy sectors and view them as fraud and waste. Just like what Trump is doing now. Ingrained institutions support them, even if they are worthless, counterproductive and expensive.
President Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, 2025. (Morry Gash/AFP via Getty Images)
Reagan has long supported gay rights because it's about personal.
Later, as president, Reagan never felt comfortable in the trap of Washington, often traveling to Camp David on weekends or longer to the ranch in Santa Barbara.
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When he left Washington in January 1989, he returned only once to receive President George W. Bush’s 43 Freedom Award.
Like Trump now, Reagan is very popular among blue-collar voters. Yes, both men have and have a huge sense of humor. Joe Biden? He is the joke's ass.
Over the years, the Republican Party has changed its position on many issues, and the Democrats have been more or less as pro-government since 1932.
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Over the years, the party has gone back and forth for trade and other matters. But in 1980, Reagan brought a bunch of problems to the party, and it still embraced and the problems Trump pursued today.
Tax cuts, federalism, strong national defense, and biological life are all focused on the importance of the individual. "Our party must be an individual party," Reagan often says, "all these questions that Donald Trump heartily accepts.
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The only problem with separating them might be trade, but Reagan also used tariffs to save Harley-Davidson from cheap Japanese imports, saving a precious company.
Everything Reagan did had to be judged in the shadow of the Cold War. He supports the NAFTA and the Caribbean Basin Initiative as they strengthen trade, cultural and political ties between these Western Hemisphere countries. And, for Reagan, they are recaps of Monroe’s doctrine.
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There is a small group of Rabble-Rouser Republicans against Trump, just as Reagan has a crank and critics.
Just like all revolutionaries.
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