How did Ronald Reagan’s Republican Party become former President Donald Trump’s? Though Reagan was the first MAGA president (he ran for the White House in 1980 on the slogan “Let’s Make America Great Again”), he wouldn't be welcomed in today’s Republican Party. For Reagan, immigration was a unique cornerstone of American vitality and renewal, and it was central to his own origin myth. Unlike Reagan, today’s GOP has used immigration to divide Americans and to make immigrants the scapegoats for a range of domestic ills, including income inequality. Impatient with the slow-grinding nature of the post-war containment policy, Reagan turned his foreign policy on a redefinition of America’s stance toward the Soviet Union.

Source: Daily Sun March 09, 2024 13:39 UTC