Vanished
Ronald Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and stood up to what he called the “Evil Empire.”
Trump and Vance sat in the Oval Office, set up Ukraine’s President Zelensky and sucked up to Evil Emperor Putin.
Reagan demanded, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Trump and Vance complained that Zelensky was “disrespectful” and didn’t say “thank you.” Trump taunted him: “You don’t have the cards.”
Trump boasted afterward, “This is going to be great television.”
The staged TV show made clear that Reagan’s GOP, which stood up to communism and the Soviet Union, has vanished.
Just as Trump dodged the Vietnam draft, he’s ducking the defense of freedom against dictators.
And today’s Republicans, unlike yesterday’s Reagan Republicans, are with him.
A Morning Consult poll – released the same day Trump and Vance tag-teamed Zelensky – found that, by 37-34%, Republicans say the United States “should push Ukraine to let Russia keep territory it has gained in order to end the war.”
Not all Americans agree. By 48-27, they say the U.S. shouldn’t push Ukraine to make territorial concessions. But support for concessions has grown by 5% since last December, when the same poll found Americans opposed them by 47-22.
Once-dovish Democrats oppose giving Putin what he wants by 60-20. About one in four Americans aren’t sure what to do.
Public support for Ukraine probably will keep eroding. More Republicans will line up behind Trump. More Republican politicians will parrot his “America First” rhetoric.
Trump, unlike Reagan, won’t stand up to evil dictators. He embraces them.
Will America?
Vanished
Ronald Reagan stood at the Berlin Wall and stood up to what he called the “Evil Empire.”
Trump and Vance sat in the Oval Office, set up Ukraine’s President Zelensky and sucked up to Evil Emperor Putin.
Reagan demanded, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Trump and Vance complained that Zelensky was “disrespectful” and didn’t say “thank you.” Trump taunted him: “You don’t have the cards.”
Trump boasted afterward, “This is going to be great television.”
The staged TV show made clear that Reagan’s GOP, which stood up to communism and the Soviet Union, has vanished.
Just as Trump dodged the Vietnam draft, he’s ducking the defense of freedom against dictators.
And today’s Republicans, unlike yesterday’s Reagan Republicans, are with him.
A Morning Consult poll – released the same day Trump and Vance tag-teamed Zelensky – found that, by 37-34%, Republicans say the United States “should push Ukraine to let Russia keep territory it has gained in order to end the war.”
Not all Americans agree. By 48-27, they say the U.S. shouldn’t push Ukraine to make territorial concessions. But support for concessions has grown by 5% since last December, when the same poll found Americans opposed them by 47-22.
Once-dovish Democrats oppose giving Putin what he wants by 60-20. About one in four Americans aren’t sure what to do.
Public support for Ukraine probably will keep eroding. More Republicans will line up behind Trump. More Republican politicians will parrot his “America First” rhetoric.
Trump, unlike Reagan, won’t stand up to evil dictators. He embraces them.
Will America?