Strike The Root: One More on the Gipper

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June 10, 2004

One More on the Gipper

Seen and heard enough about Ronald Reagan this week? Well, even if you have, you should give Anthony Gregory's column on the subject a look.

I was thinking of writing something along these lines myself, but Anthony has pretty well said all that needs to be said about it. I'll only add to what he has written with what I see as a couple of very bad consequences of Reagan's ascension to the presidency vis a vis the conservative movement:

It completed the wedding of conservatives to the Republican Party, to the point that most seem to believe the two are synonymous, regardless of how appalled they would be had a Democrat done the same things George W. Bush has done, for example.
It proved that one could get away with left-wing policies as long as he put a right-wing veneer on them. Both George Bushes succeeded in getting elected by claiming to be conservatives and speaking of limited government, although W. has done so to a far lesser extent than his father and Reagan, and then governed as if they had run as Ted Kennedy. Bush still speaks of "knowing the limitations of government" every time he is about to announce some new government program, and the conservatives swallow it.

Need proof? I sent a copy of the column to a Republican hardliner friend of mine, whose response was that I should count him among the "vile followers" of Reagan, as Anthony describes them, so you know he's touched a nerve. Criticism of Republicans from the left can be ignored, but criticism from the right is simply beyond the pale.

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I agree, Anthony has said most of it well.

One twist, though: Reagan was the Great Paradox, not just the Great Communicator. As an individual as far as one can tell from the TV clips, he seems to have been a genuinely nice guy. Genial, engaging even with his opponents, humorous to a fault; not even Ted Kennedy could find anything nasty to say about him. I know, it's very dangerous to attribute sincerity to Pols, but he really seemed sincere.

And yet... he did all the things that Anthony names, and more, once in office. He swore to uphold and defend the Constitution (inadequate limit though it is) and then urgently went about defiling it, by provoking and waging foreign wars and by maintaining the pretense of an income tax to fund it, when none exits in law nor could exist under that Constitution. He and his equally charming wife waged the war on drugs; he presided over the imprisonment of over a million Americans for using or dealing in substances that harm nobody but themselves - in open and flagrant hostility to that basic freedom.

How come, this total contrast?- between Reagan the man and Reagan the President? What is it, exactly, that takes over a person when he or she becomes a public official? Yes, power currupts; is that what it is? Like a switch, that when turned on takes an ordinary human and changes him into a monster?

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