Ronald Reagan

The Changing Republican Party

November 6, 2020November 6, 2020 CPE 0 Comments 2020 Election, Abraham Lincoln, Barry Goldwater, Civil Rights, conservative, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, History Today, It Was All A Lie, Republican Party, Richard Nixon, Rockefeller Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Stuart Stevens, Tim Stanley, white voters

This collapse of a major political party as a moral governing force is unlike anything we have seen in modern American politics.

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Ronald Reagan Made America Great Again

February 3, 2019September 26, 2020 CPE 1 Comment Build The Wall, Donald Trump, George H.W. Bush, immigration, MAGA, Make America Great Again, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan

Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of the facts. Ronald Reagan represents American greatness. Donald Trump embodies its worst impulses.

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Ronald Reagan on Free Trade

September 30, 2018September 30, 2018 CPE 0 Comments Donald Trump, free trade, NAFTA, protectionism, Ronald Reagan

“The expansion of the international economy is not a foreign invasion; it is an American triumph.”

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John McCain and Donald Trump: A Retrospective

September 2, 2018September 26, 2020 CPE 0 Comments Barack Obama, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, global leadership, John McCain, MAGA, Make America Great Again, Meghan McCain, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, veterans

“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,” daughter Meghan McCain said, setting the tone for eulogies by Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.

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Is Donald Trump a Christian? Does He Love The United States?

January 29, 2017October 25, 2020 CPE 2 Comments America First, Christianity, Donald Trump, Emma Lazarus, executive order, George Washington, immigration, James Madison, Muslim Ban, national security, Pope Francis, refugees, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan

Donald Trump’s ban on Muslims is not Christian, not American, not Republican, and not effective.

History Politics

Irony of the Day: The Berlin Wall Comes Down

November 9, 2016September 13, 2020 CPE 0 Comments Berlin Wall, border wall, Donald Trump, Ronald Reagan, You're the Puppet

On this day 27 years ago, we watched the Berlin Wall crumble.

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Trump’s Republican Party is Not a Party for the Future-or the Past

November 4, 2016September 24, 2020 CPE 1 Comment 2016 Election, Abraham Lincoln, baby boomers, college-educated voters, conservative, demographic change, Donald Trump, George Will, Hillary Clinton, immigration, millennials, nativism, racial division, racial resentment, Republican Party, Ronald Reagan, white supremacy, white voters, William F. Buckley Jr.

“Old, white, and uneducated is not the future of this country. A vote for Trump is not a vote for the future. It is a vote for a past that never really existed. To the extent that it did, we should be seeking to leave these elements behind- not seeking to restore them. “

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Great Leaders Don’t Build Walls

November 4, 2016October 11, 2020 CPE 1 Comment Berlin Wall, Build The Wall, Donald Trump, global leadership, leadership, MAGA, Make America Great Again, Ronald Reagan

One almost irrefutable lesson from world history is that those who build walls or seek to isolate themselves in order to protect and preserve and prevent or limit inevitable change ALWAYS lose in the end.