Trump Is Destroying Reagan's Legacy
September 1, 2024 by Cliff Kincaid
In a previous column, “Making Sodom and Gomorrah Great Again,” I warned about the leftward drift of the Trump for president campaign. It has gotten worse. He is now promoting the legalization of dope.
Some say it doesn’t matter, that they will support Trump no matter what. They say only Trump will save America from communism. But if Trump is adopting elements of the communist agenda for America, moving left on dope, gays, and abortion, many conservatives will start having second thoughts about whether to support him. If they perceive he wants to win at any cost, without regard to the moral issues that grip the nation, he will lose many votes, perhaps millions from Christians and conservatives.
At a time when the new Reagan movie is gripping the nation, providing an opportunity for Trump to copy Reagan’s politically successful playbook, Trump has decided to jettison one of the main legs of Trump’s three-legged stool of foreign policy, economic, and social conservatives as a strategy of winning. Trump has decided to appeal to Cultural Marxists by embracing legalized marijuana.
David G Evans, Senior Counsel for the group, Cannabis Industry Victims Educating Litigators, told me in a statement, “We are very disappointed that Trump has caved into the left-wing drug legalization scam funded by George Soros. Marijuana legalization has caused increases in addiction, mental illness, crime, and violence. Trump is acting in ignorance of the damage that has been caused in those states that have legalized marijuana. We get many calls from parents about how marijuana has destroyed their children. Trump has now come down on the side of addiction for profit. Not even Biden has come out in favor of legalization.”
As Evans indicates, Trump’s dramatic turn in favor of legalized marijuana doesn’t make sense politically. Historically, it’s stupid for a Republican to pander to the stoners and the Soros-supported legalization movement, which is backing the Democrats.
If we examine history, especially Reagan’s strategy of having a “three-legged” stool of political support from fiscal/economic, foreign policy, and Christan/social conservatives, we quickly realize that, on this basis, Reagan was elected for two terms. His second win was a landslide.
The culture has changed for the worse, to be sure, but this is no time to abandon the fight to the marijuana industry, the abortion business, and the “gay” lobby, now in a new phase that inevitably leads to acceptance of pedophilia.
Yet, in that previous column, I noted that Trump’s wife Melania, a Catholic, was raising money for the Log Cabin Republicans, a gay activist group that supports homosexual “marriage” and other radical LGBTQ agenda items.
In addition to this betrayal, Trump has already embraced liberal abortion laws and abortion pills, and now, in his own Truth Social Account, has endorsed the so-called “recreational” use of marijuana in his home state of Florida. He claims it is inevitable.
It’s only inevitable if principled conservatives allow it.
In addition to drifting to the left on abortion, gay rights, and marijuana, thereby alienating conservatives and Christians, he is being surrounded by figures who have a history of advocating sacrificing Ukraine to Vladimir Putin’s Russia, jeopardizing the “peace through strength” element of the Republican coalition that was prominent under Reagan.
Those figures include Tulsi Gabbard, Tucker Carlson, and RFK Jr.
None of this will concern the so-called “MAGA Media,” or even such Fox News personalities as Greg Gutfeld, who, on the abortion issue, once declared that it has “become an acceptable evil” in America and we will just have to live with it. He advocated taking abortion “off the table,” which he claimed would enable Republicans to win votes and “be in power forever.”
This seems to be the new Trump position on abortion, gays, and now dope.
In another previous column, Trump Campaign Embraces Abortion and Homosexuality, I noted that the Trump for President campaign was signaling that the anti-Christian social order is too strong for Trump to overcome and that he is making a deal with the devil to win the November election.
With his endorsement of legal dope, he is apparently trying to appease the Soros-funded drug legalization movement.
But Reagan never would have agreed with this dangerous drift to the left. He didn’t have to deal with the homosexual problem, but his wife Nancy was a great proponent of the “Just Say No” campaign against marijuana and other dangerous drugs.
Now, Trump is saying “Yes” to legal dope, on the grounds that many people want to smoke the drug and get high. He wants to cede ground to those wanting to addict our young people to a mind-altering drug.
Trump’s turn on abortion was bad enough, and that betrayal demonstrates his lack of knowledge of the communist menace.
In the new Reagan movie, Reagan is shown reading the book, Witness, by ex-Communist Whittaker Chambers, in which he discusses going from pro-abortion to pro-life.
Chambers said, “There were Communist doctors who rendered that service [abortion] for a small fee. Communists who were more choosy knew liberal doctors who would render the same service for a larger fee. Abortion, which now fills me with physical horror, I then regarded, like all Communists, as a mere physical manipulation.”
In 1933, when his wife became pregnant, Chambers said that he and his wife immediately knew that, as faithful communists, their immediate option was abortion. But his wife came over, took his hands, and burst into tears, saying, “We couldn’t do that awful thing to a little baby, not to a little baby.” It was the instinct of a mother.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner once provided the dirty secret behind abortion – it keeps women sexually available to men. That’s why he funded the “abortion rights” movement.
When he ran for the first time, Trump was considered pro-life, and his supporters carried signs that said, “Make Unborn Babies Great Again.”
Now his pro-life supporters are alienated and sickened by his turn, for crass political reasons, in favor of death and suffering for the unborn (under limited circumstances and certain time limits, he claims). His reasoning is that he wants the votes of women who find giving birth inconvenient to their career plans. He buys the feminist argument that babies up to a certain point are not human beings.
Under Trump, the 2024 Republican platform has not only dropped support for a human life amendment to protect the rights of the unborn but has dropped opposition to so-called gay marriage. Now Trump wants legal dope.
Trump sometimes compares himself to Reagan, but it was Reagan who wrote “Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation,” about his conversion to the pro-life point of view.
Chambers’ book Witness, which had such a profound impact on Reagan, was about more than abortion. It was about an even greater struggle between the forces of darkness and light, of which communism versus freedom was just one chapter.
Trump says he opposes communism, like Reagan, but moving into alignment with the forces of darkness on matters of life and death just so he can win an election is not Godly.
Is there anything the right will not do to win the election, or I ask, what are conservatives conserving?
First, let me say I do not do any kind of drugs, don't drink and don't smoke. I am a recovering alcoholic with 28 yrs sobriety and for many years I worked as a therapist at a county facility which was a program to help alcoholics/drug addicts recover. I'd like to point out a few things that some folks may not know.
1) Our founding fathers used marijuana. Many yrs ago a British professor did lots of research on this and uncovered this fact via letters, etc. George Washington was known to smoke MJ with his troops. He and Thomas Jefferson grew it. Jefferson had a patch of poppies at his home, Monticello, until a few years ago when they were removed. It was common for people to grow poppies for opium because it was a great painkiller, unlike the ones these days which are prescription by Big Pharma and far more addictive and dangerous.
2) Marijuana is NOT addictive, this has been demonstrated over and over. Do your research on this.
3) I'm not crazy about the idea of dispensaries because they deliver door to door and make it way too easy for anyone to use this stuff. I'm more in favor of growing one's own because you don't have to use pesticides, for one thing, unlike what is sold at dispensaries, which is absolutely laden with pesticides which are dangerous and highly toxic.
4) This is America, where We the People get to choose what we think is a good or right thing to do. Marijuana has been shown to help ease pain, help relax those with PTSD and it is now thought to help prevent cancer. It's not as toxic as alcohol is, which IS addictive, and when people drive drunk they can kill people. When we outlawed alcohol 100 yrs ago, it did NOT go well, people made their own without knowing how to do it safely and many died from alcohol poisoning. None of this happens with marijuana so why would we make a much less toxic drug outlawed and keep legal the one that is not healthy and can cause deaths?
5) Nancy Reagan's "Just say no" campaign was ridiculous. An addict doesn't know how to Just Say No, not EVER. It isn't that simple. Also, in Nancy's daughter Patti's book that I read years ago she states Nancy was a prescription pill addict (things like valium) - which explains why her eyes always looked blank with dilated pupils. Nancy is hardly the pillar of wisdom we should refer to on topics regarding drugs/alcohol.
6) After reading this piece by Mr. Kincaid, it appears to me he is trying to do a hatchet job on Trump and that he's probably part of deep state. Just because he's a conservative doesn't mean he's a good guy; we are seeing that almost every single one of our politicians is deep state, at last count 93% of Congress are dual citizens of Israel - which calls into question who are they serving, Israel or the U.S.?
7) I would also point out that anyone who has paid attention and researched the topic knows that Ukraine is the seat of the deep state, has approximately 40 labs which produce unethical/illegal drugs including adrenachrome (obtained by draining blood out of small children after torturing them to induce the high that adrenachrome gives), but also other dangerous drugs as well. There are numerous Russians living in Ukraine, I've known some, and they aren't very unhappy with what has been happening in Ukraine since 2014 - when present day Nazis took over govt, including Zelensky who is himself a Nazi. They have been doing what Nazis do best - torture, maim, murder, traffic women and children for rape and sex and many other things most folks would not want to know about.
Exactly how is Trump destroying Reagan's legacy? Trump simply said abortion should be left up to the states, which is what constitution states when it enumerated laws and said that all else should be left up to individual states. Trump's position is in accordance with our constitution - which Mr. Kincaid doesn't seem to know about. When it comes to rape, Trump has said the woman should probably have a choice about abortion up to 16 weeks. A baby's heartbeat, which is a significant indicator that the baby can live on its own, doesn't start until AFTER 16 weeks of mom being pregnant. Not everyone will like this idea, but again, this is America we are supposed to be free to make our own choices and not evereyone believes abortion before 16 weeks is a crime or a sin or is murder.
I've watched Trump for 45 yrs - he has never been a fanatic, or a hardliner, he IS a huge proponent of our Constitution and he believes every America should have the right to live according to what their own personal beliefs are. One size does not fit all and that's how America was designed. You will not like every single law that is passed and that applies to every single American. I would also add that if you don't like gays/lesbians, well you can't be one then. But they ARE Americans, too, and in my 69 years of living I"ve known some very fine folks who are in that category - and btw, I am Christian. THey are our fellow humans, we won't like a lot of things our fellow humans do, but they do deserve to not be castigated, outlawed or marginalized.
It seems to me Trump is merely wanting all Americans to be included, to have choices and to live their lives as they see fit - which was the original idea of America. IMHO, Mr. Kincaid is trying to win points from hardliners and is barking up the tree. I also think he's an idiot who doesn't understand how America is supposed to work nor does he understand what Trump is trying to do. Just my 2 cents. Some of you won't agree with what I wrote and that's fine because - this is AMERICA and we all have a voice and a choice!!!