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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RINO

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You know what?  [b]I am a RINO.  I'm a Reagan Republican and I'm sick of what has happened to the GOP.  [/b]So, I'm voting Harris/Walz because I want the GOP to come back to sanity and to get rid of the "basket of deplorables" and return to the reasonable Republicans.  MAGA has consumed the party and forced the real Republicans out.  The only way to get the MAGA out of control is for them to lose elections and to show that they no longer have the ability to win elections.  We need real Republicans to defeat MAGA in primaries.  We need to elect real Republicans and not elect MAGA.  The only way for the MAGA republicans to lose control is if they lose elections and no longer have the ability to win general elections.

So, I will vote for real Republicans in primaries and general elections, but I will always show up to vote against a MAGA candidate.  Country (and state/county/local) before Party.  Party before Candidate.  I vote to save the Republican Party from MAGA.[/quote]

I always find this a bit ironic since Reagan was the one who originally coined the slogan “Make America Great Again,” and the dystopian novelist Octavia Butler knew it had staying power because the president of the dystopian America in her novel The Parable of the Sower re-used it as well.  A highly recommended read.

So, to some of us, Trump is an expected and natural outgrowth of Reagan’s Republican Party, to the point where at least one person predicted the rise of a Reagan/Trump hybrid thirty years ago![/quote]

Maybe on advertising and slogans, but not in reality.

Reagan would never have created an umbrella for the extreme fringe groups of society and included them and given nods to their dysfunctional causes.  Reagan would never have associated with the Q-anon sect who believe that the Clintons were the head of a Satanic ring of pedophiles, or committed and supported election fraud, or pandered to Christian fundamentalists who want to put women into indentured servitude as baby incubators, or pander to right-wing militant militia groups that want to bring down the federal government.

I will give you that Reagan was somewhat antisemitic and did effectively say there were good people on both sides of the issue (his visits to German cemetaries vs concentration camps and his comment about victims on both sides was quite similar to Trump's good people on both sides in Charlottesville).  And he was a product of his generation and times on race issues.

But Despite being 40 earlier than Trump, he was far more enlightened than Trump.  Trump is trying to set us back more than 60-70 years beyond even the standards of the Reagan era.[/quote]
+1 Also Reagan was relentlessly positive about the country while Trump acts like it’s a dystopia.[/quote]

Reagan wasn’t positive.  His large infamous claim to fame was welfare queen and making government the  boogey man to get it “out of our lives”.

It was a way for the rich to fool poor people into gutting  taxes and government pensions top down  (teacher,  cop, firefighter, construction worker ), pay and pensions and gutting unions generally. We are still paying the price for Reagan.

He destroyed California with illegal immigration, releasing mentally Ill people out of asylums, and increasing price of state college tuition.

I wish he remained an actor and never ran for office. [/quote]

Yep- my neighborhood in Chicago is still suffering from the mental asylum debacle. [/quote]

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