Immigration has always been my number one issue, I want less of it if any at all. By that measure, Reagan was an absolutely horrible president. His 1986 IRCA amnesty was devastating, and his rhetoric about immigration was also terrible.
He "won" the Cold War because the Soviet Union's economy was bound to collapse eventually simply because capitalism is superior to communism (something Eisenhower supposedly said).
Yes, Andrew, but as explained in my obit https://vdare.com/articles/in-memoriam-ronald-w-reagan, immigration simply was not an issue for his generation because of the 1924-1965 Pause. However, his rhetoric during IRCA debate (when he was certainly tricked) was actually quite good.
Also, the effect of Uniparty-supported detente was to prop up USSR with Western bank credits. Reagan stopped that, which contributed materially to USSR collapse.
It needs to be understood that the Constitution of the United States does not contain in its Preamble, nor in any Article, nor in any Amendment an asterisk that references a footnote that states “Unless the Jews don’t like it”.
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The Jewish Plot to Enslave Humanity
At the Roots of Political Judaism
Pierre Simone
The Unz Review May 14, 2024
Should we be concerned about the hegemonic, revolutionary, even tyrannical, and genocidal character of globalism and its off-shoot Zionism? To watch the “most moral army in the world,” of the “only democracy in the Middle East,” unabashedly torture, rape, and exterminate the Palestinian children, women, and the elderly of Gaza, without a shred of human remorse, in front of the entire planet, and with the consent of the Jewish-controlled Western governments, it’s high time to ask some serious questions.
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“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.” —Mark Twain
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Voltaire once wrote, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” For decades, Israel and its enablers have convinced Americans of the absurd: that religion grants Europeans ancestral rights to the Middle East, a nuclear-armed occupier is a victim, and genocide is “self-defense.”
Peter, while fond memories of Reagan still understandably abound and have grown—I was mostly dead set against him throughout the 1980s as I honed my youthful activist Lefty 'No Nukes' political identity, but have since very much mellowed on The Gipper—his imprimatur on the catastrophic Simpson-Mazzolli Act is, most generously, a garish and indelible stain that irreparably taints his legacy. As a second-generation Californian now in his 60s, I bear witness to the fact that it is impossible to overstate the calamity that befell, and overwhelmed very quickly, the once Golden State in the aftermath of that planned debacle.
While it is true that Hart-Celler had set the stage a decade earlier, the 1986 amnesty was an epic stab-in-the-back that amounted to The Nakba for Californians, creating a diaspora that continues to seek shelter in other states, carrying with them memories of a time and place that once was if not literal house keys around their necks, for they know there is no home nor homeland to return to any longer.
My own family's homes (the first one purchased during Eisenhower's final days in office, the second during Reagan's early first months) now sit on streets that appear to be Juarez or Tijuana rather than the mid-20th Century California where they once stood amidst neatly trimmed lawns and nuclear families of four or five to a home. Today, more than 30 people inhabit just three homes surrounding one of the homes, along with dozens of vehicles, even as not-so-clandestine businesses operate out the same dwellings that had been built to house single families.
The scope and depth of the destruction is effectively total.
London, Warsaw, Hamburg and Stalingrad were all rebuilt from the smoldering ruins, but as I like to ask blue state daydreamers today: just what model or template or reconstruction plan can you evoke that would realistically alter or reverse the mechanics that resulted in a middle-class suburb being laid to waste in but a few short years? What chart can you produce, what statistic can you call upon, what policy might you put in place, that will remedy the 30,000+ people living in garages and storage containers placed in what once were backyards? And how many centuries will be needed to see appreciable results?
For what took Americans a century to produce at scale, the Third World has annihilated in but a few short years indeed.
Tragically, it was Reagan's signature that was affixed to California's death warrant.
The 800,000 migrants for which Simpson-Mazzoli was sold as 'normalizing' actually created more than 3 million citizen-path illegals and rang the cattle bell of accommodation for another 10 million well before the Millennium arrived. GOP Maitre d David Dreier took a break from tubbing with the towel boys of West Hollywood to ensure the open border policies remained undisturbed until the morning he awoke to good news/bad news. The good news was he still was testing negative. The bad news was he could no longer win in his district that had been demographically swamped by his beloved 'Newcomers' (Note: Dreier used a slightly different spelling for the term...)
Reagan Republicans is a meaningless term in the 21st Century, for the nation that produced and propelled him is gone, as is the magical state that he and so many of us once called home.
I'm doubtful of the 2 million illegals figure... I haven't seen any difference here in Los Angeles. I'm eagerly waiting for the supreme court s decision on birth citizenship. Also, his $100,000 Fee to import HB2 indians should been at least $500,000 to stop it on its tracks
Immigration has always been my number one issue, I want less of it if any at all. By that measure, Reagan was an absolutely horrible president. His 1986 IRCA amnesty was devastating, and his rhetoric about immigration was also terrible.
He "won" the Cold War because the Soviet Union's economy was bound to collapse eventually simply because capitalism is superior to communism (something Eisenhower supposedly said).
Yes, Andrew, but as explained in my obit https://vdare.com/articles/in-memoriam-ronald-w-reagan, immigration simply was not an issue for his generation because of the 1924-1965 Pause. However, his rhetoric during IRCA debate (when he was certainly tricked) was actually quite good.
Also, the effect of Uniparty-supported detente was to prop up USSR with Western bank credits. Reagan stopped that, which contributed materially to USSR collapse.
It needs to be understood that the Constitution of the United States does not contain in its Preamble, nor in any Article, nor in any Amendment an asterisk that references a footnote that states “Unless the Jews don’t like it”.
/
The Jewish Plot to Enslave Humanity
At the Roots of Political Judaism
Pierre Simone
The Unz Review May 14, 2024
Should we be concerned about the hegemonic, revolutionary, even tyrannical, and genocidal character of globalism and its off-shoot Zionism? To watch the “most moral army in the world,” of the “only democracy in the Middle East,” unabashedly torture, rape, and exterminate the Palestinian children, women, and the elderly of Gaza, without a shred of human remorse, in front of the entire planet, and with the consent of the Jewish-controlled Western governments, it’s high time to ask some serious questions.
/
“Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.” —Mark Twain
/
Voltaire once wrote, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” For decades, Israel and its enablers have convinced Americans of the absurd: that religion grants Europeans ancestral rights to the Middle East, a nuclear-armed occupier is a victim, and genocide is “self-defense.”
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Nonsense
HORSEFEATHERS
Peter, while fond memories of Reagan still understandably abound and have grown—I was mostly dead set against him throughout the 1980s as I honed my youthful activist Lefty 'No Nukes' political identity, but have since very much mellowed on The Gipper—his imprimatur on the catastrophic Simpson-Mazzolli Act is, most generously, a garish and indelible stain that irreparably taints his legacy. As a second-generation Californian now in his 60s, I bear witness to the fact that it is impossible to overstate the calamity that befell, and overwhelmed very quickly, the once Golden State in the aftermath of that planned debacle.
While it is true that Hart-Celler had set the stage a decade earlier, the 1986 amnesty was an epic stab-in-the-back that amounted to The Nakba for Californians, creating a diaspora that continues to seek shelter in other states, carrying with them memories of a time and place that once was if not literal house keys around their necks, for they know there is no home nor homeland to return to any longer.
My own family's homes (the first one purchased during Eisenhower's final days in office, the second during Reagan's early first months) now sit on streets that appear to be Juarez or Tijuana rather than the mid-20th Century California where they once stood amidst neatly trimmed lawns and nuclear families of four or five to a home. Today, more than 30 people inhabit just three homes surrounding one of the homes, along with dozens of vehicles, even as not-so-clandestine businesses operate out the same dwellings that had been built to house single families.
The scope and depth of the destruction is effectively total.
London, Warsaw, Hamburg and Stalingrad were all rebuilt from the smoldering ruins, but as I like to ask blue state daydreamers today: just what model or template or reconstruction plan can you evoke that would realistically alter or reverse the mechanics that resulted in a middle-class suburb being laid to waste in but a few short years? What chart can you produce, what statistic can you call upon, what policy might you put in place, that will remedy the 30,000+ people living in garages and storage containers placed in what once were backyards? And how many centuries will be needed to see appreciable results?
For what took Americans a century to produce at scale, the Third World has annihilated in but a few short years indeed.
Tragically, it was Reagan's signature that was affixed to California's death warrant.
The 800,000 migrants for which Simpson-Mazzoli was sold as 'normalizing' actually created more than 3 million citizen-path illegals and rang the cattle bell of accommodation for another 10 million well before the Millennium arrived. GOP Maitre d David Dreier took a break from tubbing with the towel boys of West Hollywood to ensure the open border policies remained undisturbed until the morning he awoke to good news/bad news. The good news was he still was testing negative. The bad news was he could no longer win in his district that had been demographically swamped by his beloved 'Newcomers' (Note: Dreier used a slightly different spelling for the term...)
Reagan Republicans is a meaningless term in the 21st Century, for the nation that produced and propelled him is gone, as is the magical state that he and so many of us once called home.
Powerful comment. Mark--I remember, I first saw CA in 1970 when I went to Stanford GSB--but note my reply to Andrew Morrison above.
The suicide of the CA GOP really is quite a story
You mention old time White families of four or five. Outside Mormonism, that's not longer the case and it's the root cause of the immigration problem.
I'm doubtful of the 2 million illegals figure... I haven't seen any difference here in Los Angeles. I'm eagerly waiting for the supreme court s decision on birth citizenship. Also, his $100,000 Fee to import HB2 indians should been at least $500,000 to stop it on its tracks