Ronald Reagan’s Solicitor General Has Had Enough of Trump
Source: Slate
July 5 2016 4:50 PM
By Osita Nwanevu
The man who represented the Reagan administration 25 times at the Supreme Court has issued a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump in an exclusive to Slate. Charles Fried, who served as solicitor general from 1985-1989 and now teaches constitutional law at Harvard Law School, tells Slate that Trump is the most risky in a string of recent GOP candidates that have forced a choice between party and country.
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Fried is not the first figure with ties to Reagan to speak out over Trump. Last month, Richard Armitage, assistant secretary of defense under Reagan and George W. Bushs deputy secretary of state, told Politico that he would be voting for Hillary Clinton. In May, Robert Kagan, a former state department official in the Reagan administration, assessed Trumps rise in a piece for the Washington Post called, This is how fascism comes to America. Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has compared Trump unfavorably to the late president, as have his sons Ron and Michael. Ronald Reagan would never take 11 million people or three million people or a million people and throw them out of the United States of America, Michael Reagan told Politico last month.
Read more: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/07/05/reagan_solicitor_general_charles_fried_not_a_trump_fan.html
St. Ronald really wouldn't be welcome in today's GOP.
BumRushDaShow
(129,642 posts)When you lose the likes of Peggy Noonan and George Will and even the RW loon Michael Reagan... and others, you know it's bad. But it is THEY who provided the seed that others have lovingly cultivated and sown. And the harvest was a man named Drumpf.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)trying to delegitimize him and obstruct him at every step gave rise to the tea party and the rabid, insane, ignorant, racist, xenophobic coalition which ended up electing Donald Trump. Any lament now is too little, too late.
Tikki
(14,560 posts)He and maggie showed their contempt for the young and sick and poor over and over again.
He was the precursor to today.
Tikki
Person 2713
(3,263 posts)red dog 1
(27,872 posts)Trump the Chump won't like this.
volstork
(5,403 posts)Trump would understand it...
red dog 1
(27,872 posts)and he'll add Charles Fried to his "enemies list"
Skittles
(153,212 posts)yardwork
(61,714 posts)They're watching their party go down the toilet. They did that.
skepticscott
(13,029 posts)what the Republican party is today is merely the logical continuation of what Reagan started in 1981. Anti-poor, anti-union, anti-foreigner, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-black, anti-public employee, anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-environment, anti-tax, anti-government, theocratic, warmongering, gun-humping corporate whoredom.