Regardless of beliefs and political affiliation—the stunning decline in values and just basic human decency in these past thirty years in the American Age would make Ronald Reagan cry. He’d be ashamed of his own party. As would or are Gerald Ford, Bush 41, Bush 43, John McCain, Mitt Romney or even Richard Nixon.. In essence, this Gilded Age of Trump hasn’t just been directed at the left or the middle, but the very basic building block of what used to be the GOP. Do you think Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, or Dwight Eisenhower would be on board with any of this as well? Not a chance. Not one.
Reagan’s closing was prescient in this speech. Because if you have an electorate ignorant of its own constitution and its own history…. you eventually have what we are literally witnessing on January 12, 2019.