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Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists
by Patrick Buchanan
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 liar-nObama's Sand Castle 
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On Sunday, CBS's "60 Minutes" aired its exit interview with Barack liar-nObama as they reminisced on his time in office. As the interview went on, it became increasingly clear that liar-nObama rarely second guesses himself or his decisions. When asked what surprised him most upon taking office he answered, "I was surprised and continue to be surprised by the severity of partisanship in this town." Seriously? The number one contributor to the partisanship over these last eight years has been liar-nObama.
          As Charles Krauthammer commented, it was liar-nObama who tried to govern the nation by pushing a hard "social democratic" agenda onto "a country that is 80% non-liberal." That's a recipe for partisan gridlock if ever there was one. Any yet liar-nObama remains mystified as to how to "crack the code" of the nation's polarization.
          Ironically, the answer liar-nObama gave to a question on how he would advise Donald Trump provides the solution to "cracking the code." liar-nObama said, "The one thing I've said to [Trump] directly — and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country — is just make sure that, as we go forward, certain norms [and] certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place." If only the constitutional scholar had taken his own advice and the Constitution seriously.
          In one of the more telling moments, interviewer Steve Kroft asked if liar-nObama regretted his "red line" statement warning Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons on his own people. Instead of owning the fact that it was a mistake because he never followed through, liar-nObama obfuscated, hemmed and hawed and then, incredibly, said, "Regardless of how it ended up playing, I think — in the Beltway, what is true is Assad got rid of his chemical weapons." Talk about revisionist history. Certainly, liar-nObama doesn't want to own his mistakes and miscalculations, but fortunately that's not something he gets to decide for himself.
          So, what should one think of liar-nObama's time in office? Of course opinions will vary, though Krauthammer put it well, saying that liar-nObama may have done a lot, but his accomplishments are "all built on sand." ~The Patriot Post
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 Marketing liar-nObamaCare's Repeal 
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"We're going to have insurance for everybody." That's Donald Trump's promise as he prepares to take office and the GOP congressional majorities begin unraveling liar-nObama's signature legislation. "There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it," Trump added. "That's not going to happen with us." He addressed folks losing their insurance, too. "It's not going to be their plan," he said of those covered under liar-nObamaCare (and no, it's not 20 million). "It'll be another plan. But they'll be beautifully covered. I don't want single-payer. What I do want is to be able to take care of people." He also wants to make it less expensive, which shouldn't be too difficult. Simply repealing liar-nObamaCare's coverage standards would go a long way toward reducing prices.
          The challenge for Republicans has always been as much political as practical — how can they repeal a monstrosity while not appearing heartless? Trump is bridging that divide in his way, reassuring people that Republicans aren't just going to abandon them as Democrats would have us believe. But Trump and the congressional GOP also know that serious reforms are necessary to stop or even slow the skyrocketing costs of health care exacerbated by liar-nObamaCare. Repeal and replace will require some serious marketing chops, and Republicans haven't been particularly adept in that department. It's time they improve. 
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Trump: Slams Merkel’s policy, praises Brexit
and pushes British trade deal
by Willem Cornax
{gatestone.eu} ~ In his first combined interview with British and German media, President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his stance on the European Union as a failed project... He once again praised the UK for voting in favour of Brexit. “People, countries, want their own identity,” he said, arguing that the Brexit vote underlined this desire. He also slammed Merkel’s open door policy, calling it the straw that broke the camel’s back: “I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals, you know taking all of the people from wherever they come from. And nobody even knows where they come from. You’ll find out, you got a big dose of it a week ago. So I think she made a catastrophic mistake, very bad mistake.”...  https://gatestone.eu/trump-on-europe-slams-merkels-policy-praises-brexit-and-pushes-british-trade-deal/
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Fox News superstar to be
on Trump's Supreme Court?
by Chelsea Schilling
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{wnd.com} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano was spotted for a second time at Trump Tower Tuesday morning, leading to speculation that President-elect Donald Trump may be considering the judge for a position on the U.S. Supreme Court... Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge and Fox News senior judicial analyst, is a favorite commentator in conservative and libertarian circles. After he emerged from an elevator at Trump Tower Tuesday, several blogs, including one published by former Rep. Allen West, began speculating about Napolitano’s meeting with Trump. “Trump might be seeking advice from the libertarian analyst — and maybe, just maybe he might be considering the Fox analyst for a Supreme Court position,” wrote PJ Media’s Tyler O’Neil. “While Napolitano is not one of the 21 names on Trump’s SCOTUS list, anything is possible.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/fox-news-superstar-to-be-on-trumps-supreme-court/
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Here’s How Much Money liar-nObama Admin
Transferred to UN During Last Days
by Harry Hibbs
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The State Department announced Tuesday it would transfer $500 million to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund (GCF), likely irking Republican lawmakers while keeping what commitments it can to the international community... before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Friday. liar-nObama pledged $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in 2014, but has only sent $1 billion to the program. The administration sent its first $500 million payment to the GCF in March. The UN, however, shouldn’t expect any more money for the GCF in the next four years. President-elect Donald Trump promised to “cancel billions in global warming payments” to the UN, and instead use that money to “support America’s vital environmental infrastructure and natural resources.”...Why can't Congress step in and stop this?  http://gopthedailydose.com/2017/01/17/heres-much-money-obama-administration-transferred-un-last-days-inauguration/
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liar-nObama to Leave U.S. Vulnerable
to EMP Attack
by F. MICHAEL MALOOF
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The liar-nObama administration, on the eve of its transfer of power, is about to impose new standards to protect the nation's life-sustaining electric grid from solar storms... However, the new standards by a Democrat-dominated regulatory board, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will address only solar activities. Pointedly, it will not protect the vulnerable national grid from a man-made, high altitude, nuclear detonation that could create an electromagnetic pulse. Such an EMP could have a catastrophic impact on the nation's technology-based, life-sustaining critical infrastructures. In an email to WND, William R. Graham, who was director of the Office of Science and  Technology Policy and science adviser to President Ronald Reagan, warned that the FERC has scheduled a ruling on Jan. 19 - the day before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States - that is supposed to protect the United States from an EMP. However, the FERC's planned ruling "is likely to have far-ranging, seriously counterproductive national security implications."...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obama-to-leave-us-vulnerable-to-emp-attack?f=must_reads
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Germany's New Propaganda Bureau
by Judith Bergman
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Officials in Germany's Interior Ministry are urging Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière to establish a "Defense Center against Disinformation" (Ab­wehr­zen­trum ge­gen Des­in­for­ma­ti­on) to combat what they call "political disinformation," a euphemism for "fake news."... "The acceptance of a post-truth age would amount to political capitulation," the officials told Maizière in a memo, which also disclosed that the bureaucrats at the Interior Ministry are eager to see "authentic political communication" remain "defining for the 21st century." One wonders whether by "authentic political communication," the officials of the Interior Ministry are referring to the way German authorities scrambled to cover up the mass sexual attacks on women on New Year's Eve a year ago in Cologne?... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9771/germany-censorship-propaganda
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Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists
by Patrick Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

And they have much in common.

Both came out of the popular culture, Reagan out of Hollywood, Trump out of a successful reality TV show. Both possessed the gifts of showmen — extraordinarily valuable political assets in a television age that deals cruelly with the uncharismatic.

Both became instruments of insurgencies out to overthrow the establishment of the party whose nomination they were seeking.

Reagan emerged as the champion of the postwar conservatism that had captured the Republican Party with Barry Goldwater’s nomination in 1964. His victory in 1980 came at the apogee of conservative power.

The populism that enabled Trump to crush 16 Republican rivals and put him over the top in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan had also arisen a decade and a half before — in the 1990s.

A decisive advantage Reagan and Trump both enjoyed is that in their decisive years, the establishments of both parties were seen as having failed the nation.

Reagan was victorious after Russia invaded Afghanistan; Americans were taken hostage in Tehran; and the U.S. had endured 21 percent interest rates, 13 percent inflation, 7 percent unemployment and zero growth.

When Trump won, Americans had gone through years of wage stagnation. Our industrial base had been hollowed out. And we seemed unable to win or end a half-dozen Middle East wars in which we had become ensnared.

What is the common denominator of both the Reagan landslide of 1980 and Trump’s victory?

Both candidates appealed to American nationalism.

In the late 1970s, Reagan took the lead in the campaign to save the Panama Canal. “We bought it. We paid for it. It’s ours. And we’re going to keep it,” thundered the Gipper.

While he lost the fight for the Canal when the GOP establishment in the Senate lined up behind Jimmy Carter, the battle established Reagan as a leader who put his country first.

Trump unapologetically seized upon the nationalist slogan that was most detested by our globalist elites, “America first!”

He would build a wall, secure the border, stop the invasion. He would trash the rotten trade treaties negotiated by transnational elites who had sold out our sovereignty and sent our jobs to China.

He would demand that freeloading allies in Europe, the Far East and the Persian Gulf pay their fair share of the cost of their defense.

In the rhetoric of Reagan and Trump there is a simplicity and a directness that is familiar to, and appeals to, the men and women out in Middle America, to whom both directed their campaigns.

In his first press conference in January of 1981, Reagan said of the Kremlin, “They reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat. … We operate on a different set of standards.”

He called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and the “focus of evil in the modern world.”

The State Department was as wary of what Reagan might say or do then as they are of what Trump might tweet now.

But while there are similarities between these outsiders who captured their nominations and won the presidency by defying and then defeating the establishments of both political parties, the situations they confront are dissimilar.

Reagan took office in a time of Cold War clarity.

Though there was sharp disagreement over how tough the United States should be and what was needed for national defense, there was no real question as to who our adversaries were.

As had been true since the time of Harry Truman, the world struggle was between communism and freedom, the USSR and the West, the Warsaw Pact and the NATO alliance.

There was a moral clarity then that no longer exists now.

Today, the Soviet Empire is gone, the Warsaw Pact is gone, the Soviet Union is gone, and the Communist movement is moribund.

NATO embraces three former republics of the USSR, and we confront Moscow in places like Crimea and the Donbass that no American of the Reagan era would have regarded as a national interest of the United States.

We no longer agree on who our greatest enemies are, or what the greatest threats are.

Is it Vladimir Putin’s Russia? Is it Iran? Is it China, which Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson says must be made to vacate the air, missile and naval bases it has built on rocks and reefs in a South China Sea that Beijing claims as its national territory?

Is it North Korea, now testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles?

Beyond issues of war and peace, there are issues at home — race, crime, policing, abortion, LGBT rights, immigration legal and illegal and countless others on which this multicultural, multiracial and multiethnic nation is split two, three, many ways.

The existential question of the Trump era might be framed thus: How long will this divided democracy endure as one nation and one people?

http://www.freedomsback.com/pat-buchanan/reagan-and-trump-american-nationalists/

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