First, I’d like you to see this clip from Bill Buckley’s Firing Line from before Ronald Reagan took the oath of office for his first term.
And so what Donald Trump is doing is so radical?
I have said it often enough here, to the point where it’s axiomatic to long time readers, that the worst thing you can do to a big government Republican or a big government Democrat is to actually solve a problem because once you do that you eliminate the possibility of them demagogging the situation.
I submit to you that the difference and why the left is going absolutely ape over all of this, is because Donald Trump is actually doing these things not just talking about them.
Reagan was a great president, and unarguably so. Like it or not, establishment critters, what Donald Trump is doing is the embodiment of Reagan’s vision.
This parallel also explains very nicely why Donald Trump remains as popular as he is despite the worst efforts of the left and the never -Trumper GOP establishment, who by the way didn’t like Reagan either.