He’s No Reagan

Watching Trump’s rambling, raging Mar-a-Lago speech Tuesday night, I was reminded at first of another Republican President whose hair had an unnatural tint.

But Trump is no Ronald Reagan.

I didn’t care much for Reagan, but I liked one thing: He had a sunny, optimistic vision of America.

In his farewell address, he called it “the shining city upon a hill.”

Trump’s America is a dark, dismal, dystopian place, where he makes “perfect” phone calls while “radical, lunatic” prosecutors persecute him.

Reagan smiled. Trump snarls.

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He’s No Reagan

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Watching Trump’s rambling, raging Mar-a-Lago speech Tuesday night, I was reminded at first of another Republican President whose hair had an unnatural tint.

But Trump is no Ronald Reagan.

I didn’t care much for Reagan, but I liked one thing: He had a sunny, optimistic vision of America.

In his farewell address, he called it “the shining city upon a hill.”

Trump’s America is a dark, dismal, dystopian place, where he makes “perfect” phone calls while “radical, lunatic” prosecutors persecute him.

Reagan smiled. Trump snarls.

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