Political positions of Ronald Reagan

mary obama she was obama cassidy took her out those entire campaigns of all his entire campaign he wouldn't debate her which was ironic you know payback itself because the the young lady that just primary and julie let low to be him either You gotta be careful how you handle yourself.

But the second thing that happened is, besides the wave of conservatism across the South and the rise of Reaganism, et cetera, which was happening over time, the Democratic Party stopped focusing on working class people.

Now, I didn't say white working class people, but that's a component part of working class people.

And so after the Biden-Harris defeat, I've said to some people, we gotta figure this out.

And I myself would have been pretty much persona non grata in a past life because I'm not a foreign policy isolationist.

And again, I'm sort of a Bill Buckley and Berkey and conservative, you know, Reaganite, which is not always totally compatible.

And I remember walking around their exhibit hall and there were like people that had a full booth exhibit thing for the rights of adult sex workers.

And so this is not the type of thing you would just find traditional conservatives totally compatible with, but some would argue it was consistent with their vision of a sort of secular libertarianism.

He was a, he was a believer in American power and American strength, and he wanted to r- uh, revitalize defense spending.

He, uh, his common slogan, "Peace through strength," an old Reaganite, uh, even Barry Goldwater slogan, goes back far in the history of the right.

And he said he wasn't afraid of military force, and indeed, he used military force if, a- as you well recall, a- uh, against ISIS, uh, which then occupied large swaths of Syria and Iraq.

He used military force in his first term to assassinate, um, Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian, uh, Islamic Republican Guard Corps.

so whenever it doesn't it

doesn't matter if you're a communist who believes in utopia or if you're a right-wing racist that believes in uh revisionism it's it's now a such a a common good for everyone and it just has to be sold like that the only people getting in the way now it's not a political issue anymore that's what i'm trying to say the only people getting in the way of these vested interests these dying legacy fossil fuel companies and their interests around the world that are, yeah, unfortunately have these Reaganite people like Trump by the toe and they're dragging them along.

There will be a generational shift from what you're indicating and maybe a lot of rage from that generation that takes over

Well, I think it's already happening.