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My first political memory is of being with my parents at an election night watch party in Show Low, Arizona in 1976. Supporter of Ronald Reagan He had run against Gerald Ford in the primaries, but joined forces with the party to run against Governor Jimmy Carter. When Carter was declared the winner, my mother cried and said, “Now the Soviets are going to win.”
Eleven years later, on June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan would stand at the Brandenburg Gate and say, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
This moment in Berlin is beautifully captured on film “Reagan” starring Dennis Quaid in the title role and Penelope Ann Miller as his beloved wife Nancy. This is a must-see film.
President Ronald Reagan, with his hand on Nancy’s shoulder, waves to White House staff as he returns from spending 13 days in the hospital following an assassination attempt. (Getty Images)
For those who grew up knowing Reagan’s presidency, watching the movie “Reagan” will be a trip down memory lane. If you’re too young to remember that time, it will be a history lesson, as it really tells the story of Reagan’s life.
I worked for Ronald Reagan and I’m glad to see how upset liberal critics are about the new movie
Reagan came from a poor family. Hard work and determination brought him to the spotlight of Hollywood, where he began a successful acting career. He was then elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later said that conversations with studio heads convinced him to go Collision with Mikhail GorbachevHowever, his movie star-like success would only be temporary.
Fortunately for Reagan, and our country, he had dreams other than acting.
After serving as the successful host of “General Electric Theater” for eight years, Reagan jumped into politics and delivered a speech called “A Time for Choosing” for presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964:
“Not too long ago, two of my friends were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped Castro, and as he was telling his story one of my friends turned to the other and said, ‘We don’t know how lucky we are.’ And the Cuban man stopped and said, ‘How lucky are you? I had a place to run to.’ And in that sentence he told us the whole story. If we lose freedom here, there will be no place to run to. This is the last stop on earth.”
Reagan ran for re-election and Elected Governor of Californiawon by a landslide. As the state’s chief executive, Reagan balanced the budget and became chairman of the Republican Governors Association. After two successful terms, he could have retired with honors for his accomplishments – but there was much more to come for this remarkable leader.
Reagan ran for president twice but failed before becoming the Republican Party’s nominee and eventually becoming President of the United States in 1980. Four years later, he won re-election in a landslide, winning 49 out of 50 states.
Today, Reagan’s rise seems as if it was always meant to happen. Yet his story shows the many failures that preceded his successes. If he had given up at any point in his life, who knows where America would be. His determination is a lesson for us all.
So why is Reagan still relevant today?
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As Thomas Sowell Recently wrote:
“Against this backdrop, why is this election so close? Some Republicans might say it’s because the media favors Democrats and suppresses or distorts facts accordingly. Others might say universities have become centers for promoting ideology that supports the Democrats’ agenda.
“But, even if we accept all that, the fact is that a similar situation existed when Ronald Reagan won two consecutive presidential elections by a landslide. How did he do it?
“He addressed the voting public as if they were adults and could understand an issue – provided you explained it to them in plain English rather than using political jargon or corny jokes.
“The time has come Refute Ms. Harris’s assertions When she says that, no matter what the issue is…nor is it the same as refuting her to simply condemn or ridicule her.”
Remembering Reagan will give Republicans something to understand, something solid, tangible. Reagan was confident in his beliefs, what he stood for, how he communicated. And he accomplished so much despite so much ridicule and scorn from the media, Democrats, and the elite… Sound familiar? As Peggy Noonan wrote:
“The Democratic Party has more important characters from recent American history to parade on the stage. Clinton, Obama, Jesse Jackson, who, whatever you think of him, was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel when Martin Luther King was shot. This is the message of a party that has a glorious past, and if you join it you are joining something real. The Republican Party, in its great decline, has denied its past. When you put your history aside you lose something, and you are left with only Trump’s sons for prime time.”
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The Reagan film reminds us why we shouldn’t forget our history. It reminds us what greatness looks like, what it feels like. The GOP can still be the party of big ideas, big reforms, and most of all, freedom.
so maybe We Learn From Reagan Instead of rejecting it. Lean toward freedom — real freedom, the kind of freedom the Founding Fathers believed in when they wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Freedom won.
