Ronald Reagan vs Donald Trump: the Gap is Smaller Than We Think
The 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, was once a Hollywood B-movie actor. However, his performance as President of the United States was Oscar-worthy. The last CSPAN Presidential History Survey ranked Reagan as the 5th best U.S. president in public persuasion. If looking only at the presidents of the 20th and 21st centuries, he would be second only to Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), who, in that category, is considered the greatest of all time.
Reagan is the name most evoked when talking about what Republican presidents were like before the 45th President, Donald Trump. Certainly, in terms of general demeanor, Reagan and Trump are light-years apart. Reagan knew what was appropriate to say in public. (What he said in private is something we’ll get to later.) His feelings about immigration and the Hispanic community were also quite different. He appreciated Hispanic culture, and his immigration bill granted amnesty to nearly 3 million undocumented people.
Most of all, the idea of Reagan kowtowing to Russia in any way, shape, or form is unimaginable. Trump has taken the word of Russian leader (dictator) Vladimir Putin over America’s intelligence agencies and sided with Putin’s aggression against the democratic country of Ukraine. Even worse, the Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives…
