05-15-2017, 05:42 AM
Reagan's being perfectly able to sense and articulate the nation's mood as it entered a 3T mood is a dubious gift. It changed the country profoundly and earned him the illusion of sainthood. It prolonged and deepened the unraveling. Trump is still riding his rails, borrow and spend, trickle down, the government is the problem and strengthen the military.
But unravelings don't or shouldn't last forever. There comes a time when new problems have to be solved. The conservative attachment to the ways things are is a formidable inertia that Reagan made more formidable. I'm not sure where the faint praise 'sensed the mood of the country well' should give way to the raging frustration at conservative selfishness, and refusal to see oncoming problems.
But unravelings don't or shouldn't last forever. There comes a time when new problems have to be solved. The conservative attachment to the ways things are is a formidable inertia that Reagan made more formidable. I'm not sure where the faint praise 'sensed the mood of the country well' should give way to the raging frustration at conservative selfishness, and refusal to see oncoming problems.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.