No mention of the biggest change of neoliberalism: nearly $80 trillion transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%? Trump is brilliant in that he can read a room: people are pissed. Like Mussolini, he blames the immigrants. It's a distraction. Does Trump cares about anything other than Trump making more money? Powell Memo and Project 2025 give you more insight into strategy than listening to Reagan and Trump.
How do you expect a president who never reads, has the attention span of a gnat, cannot give up talking about himself and his personal grievances, and can't form complete sentences be expected to effectively communicate anything to the public?
He lies so much that even if he said something intelligent and true no one will believe him.
Effective public communication takes careful listening, planning, practice, and work, and oh yeah.. the ability to stay on message, he's really great at that.
You can poop in one hand and wish in the other. Guess which one fills up first!
Heavy industry was coming back under Biden. Trump threw away all that was working by imposing broad tariffs, behaving erratically and gutting tax credits that were directly responsible for new factory investment. Manufacturing is in a deep recession in the US. Trump has neither short nor long term results to persuade anyone except his cult followers to “stay the course”. As for Reagan, he was following the advice of economists, not making it up as he went along.
Just to echo much of what I'm reading here: policies...even policies that I disagree with, but in the hands of well meaning and serious people...are one thing; policies as a tool to enhance and further a corrupt scheme...another thing altogether. Take import taxes aka tariffs. You writers at this publication are taking your victory lap over the absence of runaway inflation in the face of higher rates on import taxes, but it appears that much of that favorable outcome is due to carveouts. How do you think carveouts happen? You really think there's a group of honest and serious people trying to make judgements about which carveouts to implement and which to not? If so, then good luck to you.
The missing piece is the personality difference between the two men. Reagan was a level-headed man, educated, a sincere and humble Christian, with a long-term attention span, and a firm moral belief system.
Of that list, Donald Trump is... educated. In every other respect, his character and temperament are polar opposites of Reagan's: emotional, largely agnostic, arrogant to the point of narcissism, with a highly situational ethical compass and the attention span of a gnat.
I voted for him. 3 times. And I'm glad I did. But telling him to try to emulate Reagan isn't going to work. It might work for some people, but not for Donald Trump.
I guess if I was a Don apologist I'd spend a lot of time talking about Reagan too. Reagan was a normal human being.
Poor Henry. He was once a low ranking, Reagan adjacent operative. Then he, like JD, Little Marco, and so many others in my former party, capitulated. Publicly. Now he's "fervently" MAGA. No rational human could think Don has an actual strategery to help workin stiffs, let alone the discipline to enact it. The only revealed preference we have from Don regarding economic policy is the BBB. It's a budget busting, workin stiff hosing, transfer of wealth to Don's fellow plutocrats.
Other than that, Don is far more fixated on pocketing loot from crypto corruption, naming buildings after himself, shredding alliances with fellow democracies, sending masked/untrained agents to terrorize our neighbors instead of criminals (only in blue jurisdictions, showing his real motivation), attacking the rule of law, pursuing retribution against his political enemies, blowing up fishing boats and invading foreign lands in contravention of US and international law, hollowing out the civil service, decimating the best public health/scientific research entities in the world, shaking down corporate America with his taco tariffs, taking ownership stakes in major corporations, etc... Welcome to the "new" right. One might otherwise identify them as comrades from 20th century North Korea.
Hmmmmm. My bias swings counter to the comments posted here. Trump is not a god, but you certainly do underestimate his smarts and ability to listen. He's not as narcissistic or stupid as you make him out to be.
The article was excellent and drew a clear strategy for Trump to seriously consider.
As far as I'm concerned there's only one issue and that is getting a document like this in front of Trump's eyes. Gatekeepers keep a lot of good stuff out of the hands of their leaders because they're protecting their own turf.
As my mentor would say "everyone wants to play on their own monopoly board."
Not sure the swing voters are the key in the same way as in Reagan's day. Then people would really switch sides. In today's polarized world, everyone one is completely dug in and the trick is energizing the low propensity voters. It is often asserted that this is hard without Trump on the ballot so Trump is putting himself on the ballot like FDR in 34. Democrat rage may actually help. There is certainly plenty to go around.
Boy did you drink the kool-aid. Another effort to make Trump look like he knows what he is doing
Have patience. He did hire well. Vance/Gabbard 2028!
No mention of the biggest change of neoliberalism: nearly $80 trillion transferred from the bottom 90% to the top 1%? Trump is brilliant in that he can read a room: people are pissed. Like Mussolini, he blames the immigrants. It's a distraction. Does Trump cares about anything other than Trump making more money? Powell Memo and Project 2025 give you more insight into strategy than listening to Reagan and Trump.
Olsen, you're dreaming!
How do you expect a president who never reads, has the attention span of a gnat, cannot give up talking about himself and his personal grievances, and can't form complete sentences be expected to effectively communicate anything to the public?
He lies so much that even if he said something intelligent and true no one will believe him.
Effective public communication takes careful listening, planning, practice, and work, and oh yeah.. the ability to stay on message, he's really great at that.
You can poop in one hand and wish in the other. Guess which one fills up first!
Heavy industry was coming back under Biden. Trump threw away all that was working by imposing broad tariffs, behaving erratically and gutting tax credits that were directly responsible for new factory investment. Manufacturing is in a deep recession in the US. Trump has neither short nor long term results to persuade anyone except his cult followers to “stay the course”. As for Reagan, he was following the advice of economists, not making it up as he went along.
Just to echo much of what I'm reading here: policies...even policies that I disagree with, but in the hands of well meaning and serious people...are one thing; policies as a tool to enhance and further a corrupt scheme...another thing altogether. Take import taxes aka tariffs. You writers at this publication are taking your victory lap over the absence of runaway inflation in the face of higher rates on import taxes, but it appears that much of that favorable outcome is due to carveouts. How do you think carveouts happen? You really think there's a group of honest and serious people trying to make judgements about which carveouts to implement and which to not? If so, then good luck to you.
The missing piece is the personality difference between the two men. Reagan was a level-headed man, educated, a sincere and humble Christian, with a long-term attention span, and a firm moral belief system.
Of that list, Donald Trump is... educated. In every other respect, his character and temperament are polar opposites of Reagan's: emotional, largely agnostic, arrogant to the point of narcissism, with a highly situational ethical compass and the attention span of a gnat.
I voted for him. 3 times. And I'm glad I did. But telling him to try to emulate Reagan isn't going to work. It might work for some people, but not for Donald Trump.
I guess if I was a Don apologist I'd spend a lot of time talking about Reagan too. Reagan was a normal human being.
Poor Henry. He was once a low ranking, Reagan adjacent operative. Then he, like JD, Little Marco, and so many others in my former party, capitulated. Publicly. Now he's "fervently" MAGA. No rational human could think Don has an actual strategery to help workin stiffs, let alone the discipline to enact it. The only revealed preference we have from Don regarding economic policy is the BBB. It's a budget busting, workin stiff hosing, transfer of wealth to Don's fellow plutocrats.
Other than that, Don is far more fixated on pocketing loot from crypto corruption, naming buildings after himself, shredding alliances with fellow democracies, sending masked/untrained agents to terrorize our neighbors instead of criminals (only in blue jurisdictions, showing his real motivation), attacking the rule of law, pursuing retribution against his political enemies, blowing up fishing boats and invading foreign lands in contravention of US and international law, hollowing out the civil service, decimating the best public health/scientific research entities in the world, shaking down corporate America with his taco tariffs, taking ownership stakes in major corporations, etc... Welcome to the "new" right. One might otherwise identify them as comrades from 20th century North Korea.
Hmmmmm. My bias swings counter to the comments posted here. Trump is not a god, but you certainly do underestimate his smarts and ability to listen. He's not as narcissistic or stupid as you make him out to be.
The article was excellent and drew a clear strategy for Trump to seriously consider.
As far as I'm concerned there's only one issue and that is getting a document like this in front of Trump's eyes. Gatekeepers keep a lot of good stuff out of the hands of their leaders because they're protecting their own turf.
As my mentor would say "everyone wants to play on their own monopoly board."
Not sure the swing voters are the key in the same way as in Reagan's day. Then people would really switch sides. In today's polarized world, everyone one is completely dug in and the trick is energizing the low propensity voters. It is often asserted that this is hard without Trump on the ballot so Trump is putting himself on the ballot like FDR in 34. Democrat rage may actually help. There is certainly plenty to go around.
yes, yes, and yes!