By Hugh Hewitt Special to The Washington Post Last week it was announced that President Donald Trump accepted an offer to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Will it be Munich 2.0, where the evil man with the evil ambitions cons the world? Or will it be a “reverse Munich,” where Trump sits […]
Ronald Reagan
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Contemporary Republicans should learn lessons from Reagan
“The more things change, the more they stay the same.”(French proverb) While scanning YouTube videos, I came across an appearance by Ronald Reagan on “The Tonight Show,” hosted by Johnny Carson. The year was 1975 and Reagan was “between jobs,” having left office as governor of California, where he served for eight years, but not […]
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Book details Ronald Reagan’s philosophies
Does anyone really know Ronald Reagan? In his new book “The Working Class Republican,” a bracingly revisionist account of the 40th president, Henry Olsen answers “no.” One of the most astute political analysts at work today and a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Olsen argues that Reagan’s politics bear the distinctive stamp […]
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Policy might win where personality did not
In the aftermath of the debacle over the Republican effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, President Trump can learn a valuable lesson that will serve him well in the next battle over tax reform and other issues. The president was elected largely on the force of his strong personality and vague promises to fix things […]
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Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan
At his press conference last Wednesday, our president of self-regard again linked himself with Ronald Reagan, seeking to equate his supposed success in gaining a deal with Iran not to build a nuclear weapon for 10 years to Reagan’s arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union. There is at least one major difference, which causes […]