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intheflow

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10. This is different.

Reply to MIButterfly (Original post)

Mon Feb 16, 2026, 10:56 AM

Monday

Saint Ronnie was nuts but he was way more popular than Trump. Reagan came into office and 3 months later had an overall approval rating of 73%. Trump has never had approval ratings anywhere close to that. Reagan also wasn’t crass, he didn’t publicly revel in cruelty for cruelty’s sake, and he didn’t decimate governmental structure, threaten a third term, seek to imprison members of Congress for speaking truth, and as far as I recall, he didn’t send masked goons into the streets to terrorize children, poets, and nurses.

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I keep hearing that history will not to be kind to DJT. [View all] MIButterfly Monday OP

;-{)......... Goonch Monday #1

Dunno. To the best of knowledge, Richard Nixon and Warren G. Harding no_hypocrisy Monday #2

Wilson's an interesting case ITAL Monday #7

And let's not forget EuterpeThelo Monday #3

Funny, but until your post, I hadn't heard Reagan"s name in decades maxrandb Monday #4

I hope you're right. Please let it be so. MIButterfly Monday #6

I worked with a guy that moved here from Austria. Nice fella. Swede Monday #5

'What is taught as "History" in high schools would more appropriately be called "Patriotism"' - J Loewen GreatGazoo Monday #8

Perhaps some historians might ITAL Monday #9

showing how much can be ignored by those willing to do so GreatGazoo Monday #13

That guy's videos generally frustrate me ITAL Monday #15

This is different. intheflow Monday #10

Since the majority of states are red tRumplican states they will dictate the history standards of school books yaesu Monday #11

I look forward to the Donald Trump Memorial Library. usonian Monday #12

Which history? maxsolomon Monday #14

You're overthinking it. BannonsLiver Monday #16

We said the same thing about GWB. n/t flvegan Monday #17