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FakeNoose

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14. Reagan was a different story
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 09:46 AM
Aug 2017

I see where you're going with this, and the analogy fits up to a point.

However Reagan had many enablers including his entire staff, and his chief enabler was Nancy his wife.
Cheeto has no equivalent staff or wife. I believe Ivanka has already shown her limitations.

The main difference between Reagan and Trump is that Reagan was happy to let other people take the reins of government while he took his afternoon nap. He toed the mark and read the speeches they wrote for him, and that was all he had to do. (To Reagan it was just another movie role.)

But Trump is another kind of crazy altogether, Kaiser in his own little bubble-world. His tweets and camera face-time still display to the world how crazy he really is. Maybe a little dementia too, but this guy is flat-out looney, and his family has known it all along.

Reagan's dementia was manageable, but Cheeto's is definitely not, because he can't be managed.

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