OPINION: The Party Of Reagan Becomes The Party of Putin
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Four decades after Ronald Reagan confronted the Soviets' "evil empire," Donald Trump has essentially switched sides.
WASHINGTON — On the wall overlooking the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is a portrait of the 40th president, Ronald Reagan. If it could move, it would likely turn its back in shame at the words and actions this week by the 47th president.
“Absolutely obscene,” said Tom Nichols, a self-described Reaganite and former Naval War College professor, about Trump’s capitulation to Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. “He ought to take that picture down.”
Reagan labeled the Soviet Union “the evil empire” for its human rights abuses and expansionist foreign policy. Trump regularly praises Putin as a “strong” leader.
Reagan pushed for freedom for Eastern Europe from Soviet hegemony. Trump victim-blames Ukraine, saying the former Soviet republic brought Putin’s invasion on itself.
Reagan in 1987 stood in Berlin, at the Brandenburg Gate between East and West and, in a speech in a speech that marked the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union, demanded of its final leader: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
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