By Jonus Freeman ——Bio and Archives--February 10, 2024
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Last week President O’Biden aroused a wave of criticism because during a speech about abortion in Manassas, Virginia, last Tuesday, he gave a shout-out to “the real governor, Terry McAuliffe.” The RNC and other Republicans took the opportunity to call the POTUS out for being an “election denier” after implying that McAuliffe was actually the winner of the Virginia gubernatorial election in 2021. However, it may be that the Republicans see the intended joke as a simple opportunity for sniping at O’Biden. But, in a broader scope, it is reflective of leaders of either of the two major political parties being overly anxious to score points with the public at whatever the cost.
The speech O’Biden gave was on abortion, which was not as humorous as he discussed what the Democrats are pushing as encapsulated in their catch phrase for the justification for killing babies as “reproductive freedom.” It may make some shred of sense to those who have no conscience, nor any genuine concern for life itself. All joking aside, O’Biden, a “Catholic-in-name-only,” is a walking, talking contradiction in human form. But, in his speech on abortion, his true colors came bleeding through. With President’s Day on the horizon, many Americans should take time to weigh O’Biden in comparison to other presidents as the birthdays of three occur in February. The ones most remembered are Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. However, not to be diminished; it is important to remember that February 6 was the birthday of another great president, Ronald Reagan.
Compared to Reagan, O’Biden (although a combo deal of two presidents for the price of one) shows up as a polar opposite and representative of what Reagan warned the American public about big government in his day. Many Americans may not easily recollect that former POTUS Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois. Reagan was one of the most important leaders of the Republican Party in the last 50 years, and he should not be so readily forgotten. Especially, in light of what is currently being accepted as an American presidential administration, it is good to remember the “Reagan Revolution” as a point of reference.
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Unfortunately, many young people, born after the Reagan era, may simply relate to Reagan as “an actor-turned politician,” and not recognize his deeper beliefs. Those beliefs resonated with the American people when they had the chance to directly hear what he had to say, rather than accepting what they were expected to believe by the so-called “political experts.” Often neglected in the telling of the stories of Ronald Reagan, is that this old man had to engage in a serious fight simply to get his message of optimism out to the American people. Long before Trump, he had to shake up the Republican Establishment before he could win the hearts of the American people during the general election for pOTUS in 1980. Often ignored, that election is rightly remembered as essentially an uphill battle most of the way to the presidency, initially against his own party, and then in fighting the Democrats.
Ironically, though Reagan was once a Democrat, he was not a centrist; he proved to be far too conservative for the traditionalists in the Republican Party. It proved daunting to simply get the Republican Party’s nomination to run for President of the United States. Major Establishment types made claims that he was not presidential material, and despite the Republican Party, despite professional political handlers, despite continuous Leftist criticism and personal attacks against him, Ronald Reagan kept fighting to get his message to the American people, to share his sincere faith in the exceptional nature of this nation, and a sincere faith in how America truly depended upon the Constitution.
Reagan understood that “Our Constitution is a document that protects the people from government.” Yet, many now realize that O’Biden and the Democrat Party seek to instill a degenerative dependency upon big government and a soft-tyranny over the people. Sadly, when the political process comes down to the winning of elections by either major political party, the American people eventually become spectators watching who best excels at gaining control of the machinery of government.
This is why the traditional Establishment types in the GOP did not want Reagan to run, as they believed he would not be able to win. It is why the Republican Establishment types today have turned into “Never Trumpers” and seek to prop up Nikki Haley as a legitimate nominee and favored candidate “package” as opposed to the candidate of the people. GOP Establishment types like to believe they can pick “winners.”
Puppet masters of either party like puppets they can control. Of less importance is what potential presidential candidates honestly believe.
Although Reagan was a Democrat earlier in his life, he had grown more conservative as he grew older. In 1962, Ronald Reagan became a Republican at age 51. Only two years later, during the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan delivered a rousing speech at the Republican National Convention in support of conservative Barry Goldwater’s nomination.
While endorsing contender Barry Goldwater, Reagan stressed his own ideological convictions in a famed speech which later became known as simply “The Speech,” in which he stated:
America has come once again to this point in its history. Some Americans may sense this intuitively, but perhaps conservatives sense more that America is now much closer to plunging into the “thousand years of darkness.” Reagan admonished America as a whole to wake up; yet, much of what he was concerned with has come to pass since his presidency. Democrat and Republican parties essentially struggle to better each other in a game of absolute power--at odds with one another mainly to win control of the apparatus of the government--even if they have to cheat to do it.
Newly elected officials can win local elections, but as they get to D.C., are indoctrinated with the unwritten rules of the dualistic power game. Such rules have little relation to serving the public; the rules are mainly designed to serve the Party.
The Reagan Revolution exposed this “winning is everything” struggle. It is almost miraculous that Reagan won within such a political arena. Ironically, while Reagan’s Revolution temporarily pulled the power hungry Republican establishment types to the right, it was only temporary. And over the years, the Democrats have moved so far to the left that they make FDR. look like a centrist. The Establishment Republicans are finally allied with the Democrats and have created a “UniParty” of Elitists. The pendulum has swung back in this time, and America needs another revolution--not with bullets, or bombs, or bayonets--but one fueled by the ideals espoused by a Reagan, or a Lincoln, or a Washington. The Reagan Revolution attempted to bring America back to the Founder’s ideals. And, while Reagan deserves to be remembered in the company of great presidents, he may prefer to see a revival of principles or a Reagan-like revolution in the presidential election of 2024!
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