{"id":275677,"date":"2018-06-05T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=275677"},"modified":"2018-06-06T15:49:20","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T19:49:20","slug":"dont-buy-the-revisionist-version-of-ronaldus-magnus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/06\/05\/dont-buy-the-revisionist-version-of-ronaldus-magnus\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Buy the Revisionist Version of Ronaldus Magnus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"RUSH: I ran across a story at TheHill.com<\/a> and I didn\u2019t have a chance to get to this yesterday, and I intended to, but I\u2019m gonna get to it now early. The daughter of Ronaldus Magnus — that would be Patti Davis — has written a new op-ed. Where did this thing run? Where did this thing…? I\u2019m not sure where it ran. It doesn\u2019t matter where it ran. Anyway, Patti Davis, the daughter of Ronaldus Magnus, says that her father, Ronaldus Magnus, “Would be appalled by the Trump presidency — She reflects on her father\u2019s love for America…”<\/p>\n

Oh, the Washington Post. That\u2019s where it was. “…ahead of the anniversary of his death and what he would think of the nation today. She wrote, ‘My father would be appalled and heartbroken at a Congress that refuses to stand up to a president who not only seems ignorant of the Constitution but who also attempts at every turn to dismantle and mock our system of checks and balances.'” Ms. Davis, the truth of the matter is that we\u2019ve got a do-nothing Congress.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not standing up to anybody, especially the Democrats. If you want to really get down to brass tacks, where is the Congress supporting their president? This is the most popular Republican president since your dad, and it\u2019s not even close — the most popular Republican president in his party. The man is doing wonderful things, Ms. Davis, for America. You may not like his attitude, manners, what have you. But the things that we confronted after eight years of the disaster that was the Barack Obama presidency?<\/p>\n

For these things to be turned around in a year and a half — and, I tell you what, Ben Rhodes got his gig at MSNBC<\/a>. He\u2019s already… These people in the Obama Regime are already starting to cry and wring their hands. “It\u2019s not fair! It\u2019s not fair that Trump\u2019s getting rid of so much of the Obama legacy. It isn\u2019t fair.” I don\u2019t care whether it\u2019s fair or not, it is long overdue. Erasing the Obama legacy is one of the best things that could have happened to this country, bar none. But I want to address the primary complaint here from Ms. Davis, and that is that Trump is a heathen, that Trump is impolite, that Trump is a…<\/p>\n

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Well, you fill in the blank. He\u2019s rough around the edges, he\u2019s not of good cheer, any of this. I was reading a column at National Review by Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>. The column was about the growing disparity of economic circumstances among the population of California, how there is blinding, obscene wealth all up and down the coasts \u2019til you get north of San Francisco, then it ceases. But outside of the coastal areas from San Francisco on down to San Diego, you go inland, and you have some of the worst abject poverty in America.<\/p>\n

You have more illegal immigrants on welfare, citizens on welfare. I mean, there\u2019s abject poverty in the valleys, in the inland areas of California. In this column toward the end of it, Victor Davis Hanson decided to go back and remind people of California during the governorship of Ronaldus Magnus. Now, Ronaldus Magnus was governor of California in 1966. And let me just read some of this to you, \u2019cause I guarantee you Reagan is so misunderstood. Who is it painting this picture of Reagan that everybody has today?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the left.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the Drive-Bys.<\/p>\n

And what do they say?<\/p>\n

\"\"“Mild-mannered, got along with people, amiable dunce, nice guy, avuncular, slept during cabinet meetings — the best thing a president could do.” You know, all this revisionist history. It omits the fact that Ronaldus Magnus was a fighter, and if he had to get down into the gutter with these people, he went there. I want you to listen to some of this, because here comes Reagan\u2019s daughter trying to say (paraphrased): Oh, my dad would be so appalled. My dad would be shocked! My dad would be totally disapproving.<\/p>\n

“Of course, it is common to have a nostalgic view of Ronald Reagan, as model of genial, principled conservatism that might return to accelerate California\u2019s salvation.” One of the topics that Victor Davis Hanson was addressing here was how did the conservative rebound. And, of course, everybody thinks, “Well, we need to be nice! We need to walk across the aisle. We need to shake hands. We need to show that we\u2019re willing to cooperate, that we don\u2019t hate anybody” and all this. Mr. Hanson here is writing to reject that.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no way. That\u2019s not gonna win anything, as Trump has demonstrated.<\/p>\n

As the other so-called polite groupthink intellectuals in the conservative movement have demonstrated, that\u2019s not the way to win anything. It may be the way to have yourself really highly thought of by others in Washington, but it\u2019s not a way winning anything. “But a review of the 1966 gubernatorial campaign reveals one of the nastiest races in California memory. Reagan gave back everything that Edmund Brown Sr. [Moombeam\u2019s dad] dished out to him, and won by rivaling a later Trump in his often cruel invective. Reagan” in the \u201966 gubernatorial campaign “castigated ‘welfare bums,'” that\u2019s what he called them “and promised to clean up the ‘mess\u2019 at Berkeley.<\/p>\n

“And when governor, after failed popular demands that he be recalled, Reagan kept at it with rhetoric that again rivals Trump\u2019s worst. Of the People\u2019s Park demonstrations, [Reagan] declared, ‘If it takes a bloodbath, let\u2019s get it over with. No more appeasement.'”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not crossing the aisle, showing the fickle finger of friendship, seeking to cooperate. “If it takes a bloodbath” to defeat these people on the left, “let\u2019s get it over with. No more appeasement.”<\/p>\n

And the people that knew Reagan in \u201966 speaking for Goldwater, they knew this about him. He was not a milquetoast, genial, absent-minded kind of guy. He was a down in-the-gutter, wherever-he-had-to-go-to-win kind of guy. Reagan “joked that he hoped the free food for poor communities leveraged by the terrorist SLA might be infected by botulism.” You remember the SLA, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) Symbionese Liberation Army, Donald David DeFreeze was the head of that. They\u2019re the ones that kidnapped Patty Hearst and went around robbing banks with her.<\/p>\n

Gordon Lightfoot\u2019s Sundown was one of their favorite songs they listened to out there. I don\u2019t know why, but it was! (interruption) That\u2019s right. Olivia Newton John — da da da da da da da da — If You Love Me, Let Me Know. It\u2019s one of the… Those were the two favorite songs in the SLA. Had some of the other stuff in there too. But they supposedly brainwashed Patty Hearst; they\u2019re running around holding up banks or pictures of it. And it was that group that Reagan said he hoped the free food for poor communities that this group was trying to leverage would be infected by botulism.<\/p>\n

Can you imagine Reagan wishing people to be poisoned? Leftists, welfare…? (interruption) That\u2019s right, they blew the head off the judge in public. So this would have been… When this was happening, the SLA, Patty Hearst, was not \u201966. This would have been was early seventies. The SLA… Donald David DeFreeze was from Cleveland. I studied this group. This group fascinated me. Anyway, “Reagan did not call for a thousand points of light or a kinder, gentler state. Reagan was an effective governor, but the idea that he was a uniter is also simply not true, at least not until his second presidential term.<\/p>\n

“He turned [California Republican] by damning the Democrats\u2019 expansion of welfare dependency and promised to crack down hard on criminals and cheats (e.g., putting ‘the welfare bums back to work\u2019).” When it came time to talkg about the judicial system, Reagan spared no expense criticizing them “as soft on crime… He won the governorship in part through his prior renegade stance at the boisterous 1964 San Francisco Republican convention, when he joined [Goldwater]…<\/p>\n

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“He further infuriated the Republican status quo by running a last-minute insurgent campaign for president against the establishmentarian Nixon in 1968, and in 1976 by challenging Republican incumbent President Jerry Ford — an acrimonious, insurrectionary, and divisive primary for which Reagan was later blamed for the [Jimmy] Carter victory. Indeed, the Republican establishment … never much liked Reagan until he won the presidency, blasting him as a yahoo who wanted to keep the Panama Canal or a voodoo economist who thought that cutting taxes and spending more on defense would lead to balanced budgets.”<\/p>\n

Hey, this is a precursor to Trump. Reagan\u2019s daughter doesn\u2019t even get it! Reagan and Trump are closer in many ways than anybody would ever believe or understand. Mr. Hanson says, “I do not know who the next charismatic California Republican leader might be to lead a Reagan-populist revolt against the welfare state. Most likely, if it is to happen, it will probably be a Hispanic conservative who will sound a lot like the take-no-prisoners Reagan, and who will likely be just as shunned by the state\u2019s and nation\u2019s Republican establishment.”<\/p>\n

The idea that Ronald Reagan didn\u2019t mix it up, that he didn\u2019t call people out, that he was always refined and polite? It\u2019s just not true! This is politics. Reagan took \u2019em head-on, never backed down, and beat them. Two landslides: 1980, 1984. So don\u2019t buy all this history revisionism that the proper Republicans are the polite ones, whom you never hear from. Those are the Republicans the Democrats\/the media would love to be leading the party, because you don\u2019t hear from \u2019em, and they end up acquiescing in all the issues. It\u2019s Bob what\u2019s his name from Peoria. Bob Michel, the old Republican leader in the House when they had barely a hundred seats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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