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Originally Posted by Pete F.
I saw who Trump is and didn’t buy in
“Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”
That’s the famous question that everyone remembers. But it wasn’t the only question Reagan posed during that campaign. In his election eve address to the nation, Reagan also asked the following:
Is our nation stronger and more capable of leading the world toward peace and freedom, or is it weaker?
Is there more stability in the world, or less?
Are you convinced that we have earned the respect of the world and our allies, or has America’s position across the globe diminished?
Are you personally more secure in your life? Is your family more secure?
Is America safer in the world?
I would add one more: Does America under Trump’s leadership bring us closer to—or further from—that “shining city upon a hill” of which Reagan often spoke?
He described it thusly:
…a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.
The answers are obvious.
As unappealing as it might be to Reagan to vote for a Democrat, he was an American and patriot first. Nothing was more important to him than the well-being of our country.
So what would the Gipper do? Reagan would be ridin’ with Biden.
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You are too influenced by quick, surface, tidbits. If you dig deep into the Reagan political philosophy, you will find that he was adamantly against the Progressive administrative state under which the Progressives have placed us.
Reagan was way, way, more a constitutionalist than any contemporary Progressive/Democrat. He would have approved of a lot of what Trump has done as President.
He may not have approved of Trump's past moral shortcomings, but he would have definitely approved of Trump's tax and regulatory cuts. He would have approved of Trump's attempt to curb the rise of China at our expense. He would have approved of Trump's redoing the international trade deals that were destroying our industrial base and putting us in the precarious position of being at the mercy of our adversaries for medical supplies and the raw materials and various technologies needed for our military defense, as well as approving Trump's strengthening of our military. He would have approved of Trump's SC choices including at the district level as well. He probably would have approved of the Jerusalem thing and the Middle East Peace treaty. Probably of a lot more.
But he would not have voted for any Democrat over any Republican because he was concerned with preserving our constitutional system against the Progressive assault against it. It wouldn't have been about Trump or Biden for him. It would have been about the fundamental foundations of Progressivism vs. constitutionalism.