'Appalled': Reagan's Daughter Says Dad Would Want Nothing To Do With Today's GOP

[BumRushDaShow]

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Source: Huff Post

Feb 12, 2024, 02:18 AM EST


Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, said he doesn’t think her father would be embraced by today’s Republican Party ― and that the feeling would be mutual.

“I don’t think he would... and I don’t see how he would want to be in it,” she told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Sunday. “It’s so diametrically opposed to what he believed and to the dignity that he felt that people in government should have.”

She mentioned Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) trying to get into a physical fight with labor union leader Sean O’Brien in the middle of a Senate committee hearing last year. “My father would be appalled at this,” she said. “This is not a bar. This is in the Senate chambers.”

She added that she believed her father would be saddened by the state of the nation as a whole. “I think that he would be heartbroken and horrified about where America is and how mired we are in anger, in violence, in disrespect for one another,” she said. “I think he would heartbroken and I think he would be scared.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/patti-davis-reagan-today-republicans_n_65c9abe3e4b0fb721d61aa4e

[Solomon]

1. The irony is palpable.

"The dignity that he felt people in government should have?". He preached that government is the problem and clearly led the GOP down the road it's on.

[wolfie001]

24. He wanted and campaigned for.....

....killing Medicare in the cradle. He was wealthy, he didn't need it. What a pig.

[JT45242]

2. Opened his presidential campaign ata site important to the klan

Committed treason by paying the Iranians to hold the hostages....
Of course, her dad believe in NATO and that the Soviet Union was an existential threat.

Reagan is definitely the direct ancestor of this through Gingrich and the courts.

But the monster is far crazier than they planned...

[BlueKota]

5. This is 100 percent true

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

14. Glad you brought up how

Reagan started his 1980 presidential campaigncampaign at the Neshoba County, Mississippi county fair. Neshoba County was where the three civil rights workers were brutally slain at the hands of the local Klavern in 1964.

Reagan was a fervent union buster who had no problem firing striking air traffic controllers. But it was perfectly Ok for him to lead the Screen Actors Guild in a five week long strike in the 1950s. (he was a Democratic Party supporter back then)

The hate and anger Ms. Davis speaks of is a direct result of the non-stop barrage of right-wing bullshit and propaganda that their followers and supporters marinate themselves in on a daily basis. And the number of right-wing talk shows and broadcasts began to multiply after the Fairness Doctrine was repealed during Reagan’s second term.

[electric_blue68]

28. Omg, I remember hearing about that (first campaign stop)! Hideious! ...

I've been to DC nearly 20 times: about evenly divided between the pure fun 🧡 of visiting monuments, museum going, walking the beautiful National Mall, and attending ✊ rallies, and marches! 👍 :signcarryingprotester: emoji.

One of those marches/rallies was a
Pro-Labor March fairly early in Reagan's term.

Effin' bastard! 😡

Deluded daughter. 🙄

[TurboDem]

3. Her dad started this entire mess!

ronald reagan is the reason we are where we are today. May he rot in hell!

[Think. Again.]

4. Love watching their hatred turn inward.

[Roy Rolling]

6. He did Nazi that coming

"

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Hey reagan your dad is the father of this

Your dad would fall in line just like every fkg con

[50 Shades Of Blue]

8. What a fucking crock.

[Javaman]

9. it's always funny when apologists forget the little things...

like Iran/Contra.

[3Hotdogs]

15. And Paul Weyrich, his campaign fundraiser.

[wolfie001]

23. He was an evil ghoul.....nt

[electric_blue68]

33. For those who haven't heard/seen this Quote...

How many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome: good government? They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote.* Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country, and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down

*Ital is mine

🤔 I think it was Thom Hartman then on (RIP) 🧡 Air America Radio who played that snip of his speech.

[electric_blue68]

34. Oh, didn't know that! Nor that he was the founder of The Moral Majority!

Which I found out while looking up the quote I posted.

[Novara]

10. I've got some swampland to sell her

Reagan started the hateful culture identity politicking that brought us here. He created hateful politics and brought that hate right into the open. The only difference is that it started out as dog-whistling back then with "welfare queens driving Cadillacs" and bullshit that everybody knew was race-baiting. All of the anti-regulation, anti-government bullshit really took off under Reagan.

Is it any wonder the dog-whistling ended up being a bullhorn?

Give me a fucking break.

[Conjuay]

11. Own it.

It's Reagoon's legacy. And the BS that he was responsible for the collapse of the USSR? He just managed to bankrupt them faster than he bankrupted us.
Mister 'small government' - creator of the trillion dollar deficit.
Your father was a curse on this world,so shut the fuck up.

[electric_blue68]

35. Oh, never seen "Reagoon" 😄👍 Sigh 😔

[twodogsbarking]

12. Well fuck that.

[ismnotwasm]

13. Fuck Ronald Reagan

Trump is literally the pinnacle of conservatism.

[ificandream]

16. Link to NY Times (no paywall) opinion piece by Patti Reagan where she talks about the same thing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/11/opinion/ronald-reagan-father-america.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Uk0.qPkm.4JATqRR6R361&smid=url-share

[MissMillie]

17. If I were a betting person

I would bet that the feeling is mutual.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

18. I hope Reagan's turning on a spit in Hell

[Blue Owl]

19. Ronald Reagan was no Carl Sagan

Obviously he couldn't see the path he set the GOP on and where it got us today -- unlike Carl Sagan, who predicted this shit in the 80's with frightening accuracy....

[wolfie001]

22. How bought when he kicked off that Presidential run....

....a couple of miles from where those Civil Rights workers were murdered by the KKK. Damn, that's so foul even having to type it but it sure needs to be included whenever we talk about Reagan. He also sent thugs to beat up college students on their campuses in the '60s. So much infamy with that fake ass mf'er.

[Turbineguy]

40. From Wikipedia. Reagan at Eureka College:

"He became student body president and joined a student strike that resulted in the college president's resignation.[24]"

[SamKnause]

20. Bullshit.

Your f**king dad started the downfall of this country.

You bunch of sick f**ks can try to rewrite history all you want.

Some of us are still alive and know the truth.

The republican party has always been against "We The People".

They only care about corporations, the wealthy, and religious fanatics.

They are liars, cons, thieves, cheats, and hypocrites.

[wolfie001]

21. I appreciate what she's saying, but.....

....the CULT of RONALD RAYGUN is the reason we're in this mess. The whole creation of the Blue Democratic Union voter fell hook, line and sinker to Raygun's bullshit.

[RicROC]

30. You are so right! And Reagan's legacy needs to be exposed for the damage it did to our beloved country.

Raised Social Security taxes from the 6s% to the 13s%
Allowed mergers of corporations
Stole the pensions under control by the employees and gave control to the oligarchs.
Taxed retirees' Social Security for the first time.
Didn't mention the AIDS pandemic for 6 years = Trump downplayed COVID such that 400,000 citizens died, including my Trumper brother.
Installed right wing judges
Had Alzheimers for the last 2 years of his reign...so who was running the country? Not Bush. But who?

[BigmanPigman]

25. My 104 grandmom was bitching about Reagun

right up to the day she died. She loved Carter so then Reagun became her life long focus of his hatred, lies and greed. She swore at him when she was in a care facility too, they thought she was a silly old lady but she was 100% serious..she HATED Reagun with a passion⁹!!!!!

[BeyondGeography]

26. Mr. Government is the Problem would have had no problem with any of it

Even on the foreign policy front, absent the Cold War dynamic, his instincts would have been mostly small-minded.

[Alpeduez21]

27. Dumbass

He would get along swimmingly with the homophobia, the misogyny, the lack of healthcare options for people, the corporate bootlicking, suppression of the vote, and racism in general. Not to mention his fiscal mishandling of the deficit. He'd fit right in

[CrispyQ]

31. We've allowed their party & the media to call them conservatives for too long.

They're radicals. They've been drifting right for a long time but IMO when the Republican Party didn't shut Sarah Palin & her racist rhetoric down that's when the supremacists knew they could bring their hate into our public sphere. At least though, their masks are off & I'm at the point where one can't claim they aren't a damned racist if they still associate with or vote republican.

The Republican Party's problem was & still is, their only idea is to rape the planet & give it to those at the top while taking a cut for themselves.

[NoRethugFriends]

32. Let's not forget the "Welfare Queen" stuff

[Ocelot II]

36. Dr. Frankenstein's daughter just noticed that Dad's monster is loose.

[Basic LA]

37. Not to mention his backing of apartheid

In South Africa. And even back when he was governor of California, he ended free college education as revenge for Berkeley campus protests & the Free Speech Movement.
Not to mention closing mental institutions & dumping patients on the street, which started the mass homeless crisis. I could go on for hours.
This is a great thread. It all started with Ronnie Ray Gun.

(Oh, & ending "equal time" in broadcasting, which ushered in Hate Radio, Rush Limbaugh, & eventually Fox not-News.)

[BumRushDaShow]

42. "Not to mention his backing of apartheid"

And it took many mass protests against him while President, to force the banning of the krugerrand in the U.S., almost 40 years ago.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

38. This is Ronald's monster in so many ways, Patti.

I expect he would try to run from responsibility for it.

[Chi67]

39. Back during Reagan

I knew where the GQP was headed. And here we are.

[Omaha Steve]

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