Thread by @ChrissieKeffler

Just a note to pro-Trump #GOP and elected #GOP. FWIW, I want to clear up one fact. Trump is nothing like Reagan. I don’t understand the animosity towards the Bush’s but setting that aside, a perception that Trump is a version of Reagan is totally inaccurate. If Trump mirrors...

anyone it is the Democrats. I remember in the early days of Rush and other political pundits pointed to the way the Democrats gained their hold on not by trying to help the less fortunate but telling the less fortunate only Democrats understood and could save them. They were..

helpless but for the Democratic Party. When Biden rolled out his E.Os, Proclamations, and Memos, many defended them saying he was simply undoing what Trump had done. Setting aside Presidents are not
elected for the sole purpose of undoing what the preceding President did, what

I noticed Biden was putting in place policies that might help their usual constituents but many would hurt the “red” state Americans who found a champion in Trump. I envision all future elections based on two different “overlooked” segments of the population. Doing and undoing...

what each other did in order to prove they are the only one to speak for their preferred underdog. It can’t go on. The government must serve people who through no fault of their own suffering. But not by stacking the decks against another. Do we call that horizontal class

warfare that will rage indefinitely? Which will only serve the powerful and self-appointed saviors of each Party’s poor helpless underdog. This is where I remind everyone why Trump is not Reagan. There are no Reagans. What did Ronald Reagan do? Yes he spoke to middle...

America and perhaps the underserved at that time but not as their champion but to remind them that government could not fix their lives. America was the Shining City on the Hill and you could be your own master. Of course he was accused of class warfare. But his words spoke...

to the middle-class who already believed that in their hearts. Including those who would become known as the Reagan Democrats. The Democrats are more of what they used to be. The only savior for a wide group of people. Trump finds his power by being more like the
Democrats...

the only thing standing between his victims and those who would victimize them further. This is also the tool of revolutionary dictators on their way to power. It's why both parties demand lockstep. To shore up power for those already in power. Creating as many victims as they...

can along the way. It's not how America was made. It wasn't made for people who needed saviors. Yes, imperfectly and lacking justice but mostly with an eye of being more just and a more “perfect union”. We really have abandoned that goal....

Trump's brand of Republican politics, not unlike Democratic Policies, depends on being the only hope of “their” people. How will this end?
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