Yes, even as a kid I remember news alternating between showing him as a mean right-wing Republican who hates poor people, and a doddering old fool. It wasn't nearly as bad as with Trump, and the neolib establishment has softened on him now. Leftists (communists) still hate him. I remember talking with a lefty younger co-worker about how Reagan's legacy looks better now and he said "no he was still a shitty president with trickle down economics."
The press has portrayed every Republican president since WW2 as a fool, evil, or an evil fool. The last being especially hilarious, because they are trying to convince you that the guy is an idiot, but they also try to convince you he's some sort of evil genius bent on ruining people's lives. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad and obvious when you sit down and think about it.
Eisenhower was a fool.
Nixon was evil.
Reagan was an evil fool.
Bush senior was a fool.
Bush junior was a fool, then Iraq happened, and after that he was an evil fool.
Trump was/is an evil fool.
Maybe because he said "Mr Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!"
-Ronald Reagan, 6.12.1987, "Berlin Wall Speech"
"...it was often seen as one of the most memorable performances of an American president in Berlin after John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech of 1963..."
It's brilliant. Instead of dealing with whiny taxpayers, just print all the money you need and blame le greedy corporations for le price gouging when everything's more expensive. Then give the rubes more printed money to combat le price gouging and be seen as heroes.
They called him everything they call Trump, and everything they called Goldwater, because it's the same anti-establishment revolution at work.
Goldwater never got elected president. Reagan was subverted in his second term. Trump was subverted in his first term and still managed major success.
That's really the strange thing here. Trump is fighting a uni-party as aggressive as the one Goldwater faced, but he's been pushing on the level of success that Reagan had.
I remember seeing a stat before that literally every Republican candidate for president has been compared to Hitler or saying that they would empower "far right" forces since Wendell Willkie in 1940. The only exception being Eisenhower, and only because it would probably be a bridge to far for even the most smooth brained of normie to believe the guy who defeated Hitler actually liked him.
Yeah, you actually couldn't call people Nazis during the post-war period. Nazis were so viscerally hated in the US by the 50's that it would have been understood to be fighting words. You'd actually get physically beaten up for it. The early (post-war) American National Socialists would get attacked pretty regularly for showing swastikas or the like off in public.
Calling Dwight D. Eisenhower a Nazi? Someone's probably gonna stab you. You literally can't talk shit about the president like that as a social taboo.
Reagan was controversial? Dude is the epitome of the milquetoast neo-con.
The '84 election map says otherwise
1984 was demographic paradize compared to now.
Ironic, ain't it?
Literally everyone except DC: "SHUT THE FUCK UP MINNESOTA!"
Yes, even as a kid I remember news alternating between showing him as a mean right-wing Republican who hates poor people, and a doddering old fool. It wasn't nearly as bad as with Trump, and the neolib establishment has softened on him now. Leftists (communists) still hate him. I remember talking with a lefty younger co-worker about how Reagan's legacy looks better now and he said "no he was still a shitty president with trickle down economics."
The press has portrayed every Republican president since WW2 as a fool, evil, or an evil fool. The last being especially hilarious, because they are trying to convince you that the guy is an idiot, but they also try to convince you he's some sort of evil genius bent on ruining people's lives. It'd be funny if it wasn't so sad and obvious when you sit down and think about it.
Eisenhower was a fool. Nixon was evil. Reagan was an evil fool. Bush senior was a fool. Bush junior was a fool, then Iraq happened, and after that he was an evil fool. Trump was/is an evil fool.
It's all so tiresome.
Maybe because he said "Mr Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!"
-Ronald Reagan, 6.12.1987, "Berlin Wall Speech"
"...it was often seen as one of the most memorable performances of an American president in Berlin after John F. Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech of 1963..."
Well, you can see why they are mad.
He tore down the Anti-Fascist wall and all the AfD came in. Simple as.
I like how cutting taxes is trickle down economics, but an exponential increase in the money supply is populism.
It's brilliant. Instead of dealing with whiny taxpayers, just print all the money you need and blame le greedy corporations for le price gouging when everything's more expensive. Then give the rubes more printed money to combat le price gouging and be seen as heroes.
I would argue it's not working even now. People don't feel good about the economy due to prices. And we're not even close to hyperinflation yet.
Reading Thomas Sowell go over the media spin against him in 1984 is fucking insane. It's all the same shit they say about Trump.
Which also happens to be all the same shit they said about Goldwater.
It's all the same shit.
Didn't he win 49 states when he ran? Seems pretty well-approved to me.
Muh popular vote.
My dad was telling me that in the 80 election they painted him a dangerous.
They called him everything they call Trump, and everything they called Goldwater, because it's the same anti-establishment revolution at work.
Goldwater never got elected president. Reagan was subverted in his second term. Trump was subverted in his first term and still managed major success.
That's really the strange thing here. Trump is fighting a uni-party as aggressive as the one Goldwater faced, but he's been pushing on the level of success that Reagan had.
I remember seeing a stat before that literally every Republican candidate for president has been compared to Hitler or saying that they would empower "far right" forces since Wendell Willkie in 1940. The only exception being Eisenhower, and only because it would probably be a bridge to far for even the most smooth brained of normie to believe the guy who defeated Hitler actually liked him.
Yeah, you actually couldn't call people Nazis during the post-war period. Nazis were so viscerally hated in the US by the 50's that it would have been understood to be fighting words. You'd actually get physically beaten up for it. The early (post-war) American National Socialists would get attacked pretty regularly for showing swastikas or the like off in public.
Calling Dwight D. Eisenhower a Nazi? Someone's probably gonna stab you. You literally can't talk shit about the president like that as a social taboo.
Every Republican since Eisenhower has had massive attack ads run against them. Look at how Goldwater was treated. (In your guts you know he's nuts.)