Divided America: Constructing our own intellectual ghettos
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Category Archives: Ronald Reagan
A Middle East report card
On June 4, 2009, President Obama gave a speech at Cairo University which the White House calls "A New Beginning" meaning a change in the relations between the West and the Middle East North Africa , the region from Morocco to Iran. It is now seven years later and a useful point to consider whether the policies derived from the speech were successful or not.
Pat Buchanan: Whites Looking to Trump as Blacks Did Obama – ‘With Hope’
Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said Saturday that white middle-class Americans have become so disenfranchised that many are looking to Donald Trump as African Americans did to Barack Obama in 2008 - "with hope." "I think, culturally, they're under assault," Buchanan, former aide to Republican Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, told Michael Smerconish on CNN.
Unity Isn’t a Trump Card
In the effort to rally Republicans around the Donald Trump candidacy, one often hears two arguments invoked. One is that those who oppose Mr. Trump need to focus on "unity" now that he is the presumptive nominee; a second is that the anti-Trump forces need to respect the "will of the people."
Opinions
Mostly it's been depicted as a crop grown far from the mainstream in the fields of far-right crackpots, at least that's how the government-approved media see it. They conveniently fail to mention that Ronald Reagan campaigned on the idea and was elected President - twice.