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.@realJeffreyLord, can you read and hear? @GOPChairwoman said—quote—“this is the time where we should be celebrating our President,” and she was referring to the D-Day anniversary. Celebrating Donald J. Trump is not what that anniversary is about. And about Reagan ...
Reagan never attacked deceased war heroes.
Reagan never dodged the draft.
Reagan never lionized ruthless dictators, let alone fell “in love” with one.
Reagan never tried to obstruct a lawful counterintelligence or law-enforcement investigation.
Reagan never paid off a porn star.
Reagan never made the presidency about himself.
Reagan never put his personal interests above the nation’s.
Reagan never stopped trying to be the president of all the people, even though not all the people wanted him to be their president.
Reagan conducted himself with dignity, both at home and especially abroad.
Reagan responded to the hatred that others had of him with love of country, not of self.
Reagan wasn’t perfect—no president is—but he earned the grudging respect (and later even the votes) of many who did not originally support him, because he put his country before himself and tried to reason with, not viciously malign, those who disagreed with him.
Reagan was a decent and honorable man.
We could use a decent and honorable person in the presidency today.
