About a month or so ago on March 23 I posted on this website my memoir of my time in the Reagan administration which had just been published in The Independent Review, a readable quarterly. I expected to hear more than I did in response to my memoir, because I spelled out how difficult it is for a presidential appointee to actually support the policy of the President. See this.
Then it occurred to me that the Reagan administration was a long time ago, 1981-1988. President Reagan’s term ended 37 years ago. So an American 50 years old today was 13 years old when Reagan’s second term ended. He was 5 years old when Reagan was elected president. A 50 year old American never experienced the Reagan administration. A 60 year old American was only 15 when Reagan took office. The vast majority of Americans alive today know nothing of the Reagan administration except the accounts of the presstitute media and historians grinding ideological axes. Yet, somehow, Americans say they miss Reagan, the last American president.
With Trump’s first 100 days behind us, MAGA Americans are touting his successes and the Democrats are multiplying his “failures.”
Let me tell you about a real successful president–Ronald Reagan–Perhaps the only successful president in the 20th century. Reagan had two major successes. I know because I was part of them. Reagan cured stagflation–the simultaneous rise of inflation and unemployment– with his supply-side policy, and he ended the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Tell me, what American president has had such extraordinary successes?
Reagan’s success was covered up with media hype about “the teflon President,” with the neoconservatives’s Iran/Contra scandal, with “the Reagan deficits” that belong to David Stockman and Paul Volcker.
American historians, academics who guarantee their careers by justifying the various atrocities their governments commit, rank the top five US presidents as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower in that order. See this.
Lincoln destroyed the Constitutional framework based on states’ rights as designed by the Founding Fathers. Lincoln introduced war against civilians as an essential part of war against the opposing army. Today the International Criminal Court would recognize Lincoln as a war criminal and issue arrest warrants.
Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence, ranks 7 after Harry S. Truman, who nuked two Japanese civilian cities while the Japanese government was pleading with Washington for peace.
John F. Kennedy comes in 8th, Ronald Reagan 9th, Barack Obama, who bombed 7 countries comes in 10th, and President Lyndon Johnson–“LBJ, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today”–comes in 11th.
What we see here are the liberals, not willing to dethrone the first American president, or a Founding Father who wrote the Declaration of Independence, or John F. Kennedy a martyr, or Reagan whose popularity remains high, shielding themselves from partisanship by including Jefferson, Kennedy, and Reagan in the second tier of successful presidents..
Lincoln destroyed the US Constitution which is based on states rights. He conducted a war of war crimes against an agricultural society that could not afford to pay the Morrill Tariff in order to industrialize the North at the expense of the South. No sooner than the South was destroyed, the Union launched a war of extermination against the native American Plains Indians, the same Union Generals–Sherman and Sheridan–the same Union soldiers that raped and pillaged the South repeated the application to the remaining Native Americans. As Lincoln’s reward for genocide, he is voted by American historians as the best ever–the Number One-of all American presidents.
Franklin D. Roosevelt gets the third ranking, because he replaced the power of Congress with the power of regulatory agencies.
Theodore Roosevelt is bestowed the 4th ranking because he established the American policy of empire and hegemony.
One assumes Eisenhower’s fifth rank is because he is alleged to have won World War II for the US.
Truman is 6th because he nuked Japan, thus putting the Soviet Union on notice.
If you look at these achievements, Washington and Jefferson, aside, Ronald Reagan at number 9 on the list is the only one who rescued America from an economic catastrophe and a Cold War that could have turned hot.
Liberals and what passes for a left-wing say that Reagan was just another fake, another warmonger committed to the Soviet Union’s destruction. But a president who was a fake would never, ever, put me in charge of his economic policy, nor would he appoint me to a secret presidential committee to verity or disprove the CIA’s argument against ending the Cold War. I am the last person on earth that a fake President wants to hand a Presidential Appointment or a decision on a critical foreign policy issue.
So, now that we have all of the congratulatory and denunciatory accounts of Trump’s 100 Days, what do they mean?
Trump did a good thing in service to justice when he pardoned and released from prison the framed-up-by-the-Biden-anti-American-regime American citizens who used their Constitutional rights to protest a stolen presidential election. But the corrupt persons who framed up innocent Americans have not been arrested and indicted, as they should be. Why is Trump focused on Ukraine rather than on those who framed innocent Americans as “insurrectionists”?
The Democrats have shown that they will strongly resist Trump’s rollback of the legal privileges Democrats created for DEI-designated-persons and for immigrant-invaders. Democrat district court judges, the lowest of the low, have claimed the right to decide the power of the President of the United States to govern. Trump’s reply is that he abides by judicial rulings. Trump is relying on the Supreme Court to overturn the district courts, but if that doesn’t happen, will Trump fight?
Trump himself makes deals with Zelensky and claims they are deals Putin must accept. This is nonsensical. The conflict is between the US and Russia. The deal has to be made between Trump and Putin.
The real problem is the neoconservative doctrine of American hegemony As long as American foreign policy is based on Paul Wolfwitz’s doctrine, there can be no peace.
Trump has not repudiated the doctrine of American hegemony. Until he does, how can Putin trust him?
