MAGA saws the legs off of Reagan’s three legged stool

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Tue, 26/09/2023 - 02:30
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Tue, 26/09/2023 - 02:30
With their abandonment of the military, it’s nothing but firewood It’s time for another scintillating Republican presidential primary debate in which a group of people with no chance to win the nomination will face off against each other at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley California on Wednesday. The front runner, Donald Trump, won’t lower himself to attend such an event with the lesser candidates but he’s rejecting this particular one for other reasons as well. According to Politico, the former president is fit to be tied at the library for hosting “A Time for Choosing,” a two-year long speaker’s series, envisioning a “fresh look — through reasoned, intellectual discussion — at the issues, ideas and policies that will define the Republican Party for decades to come.” Probably the most widely disseminated of these talks were those from Trump nemesis Liz Cheney and Reagan Foundation board member Paul Ryan the former Speaker of the House, who said, “it was ‘horrifying to see a presidency come to such a dishonorable and disgraceful end.'” Apparently, the entire board of the Reagan Foundation agrees. This is not surprising. The legacy of Ronald Reagan was once the crowning glory of the conservative movement, a movement that has now been displaced by Trump’s MAGA cult. Reagan has no cachet among the GOP rank and file anymore most of whom are uninterested in the ideology that once ruled the Republican party. That ideology was best described by Reagan himself who saw the conservative movement coalition as a…