PREVIEW: COLLEAGUE DAVID HEBERT AND MARCUS WITCHER ANSWER THE PUZZLE, WOULD RONALD REAGAN REPUBLICAN FREE TRADER RECOGNIZE DONALD TRUMP AS A REPUBLICAN FREE TRADER? MORE LATER.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 30 May 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is John Batchel, speaking with David Ebert and Marcus Witcher writing at the Civitas Outlook for Civitas Institute about comparing and contrasting Reagan, Ronald Reagan, as a free trader, with Donald Trump as a free trader. |
| 0:16.3 | The conclusion is a surprise. |
| 0:20.7 | Maybe not. Is David E. Baird on? Would Ronald Reagan recognize Donald Trump as a |
| 0:29.6 | Republican? More of this tonight. You know, if Ronald Reagan were here today and you told him that |
| 0:36.6 | the president was interested in |
| 0:38.1 | raising taxes on the rich, enacting protectionist policies, right, and controlling social media |
| 0:44.5 | to the degree that President Trump is doing it, he would have told you that a Democrat had |
| 0:49.0 | clearly won. Instead, we have President Trump, a in-name, apparently, Republican. |
| 0:55.0 | Now, if anyone deserves the term rhino, it's President Trump. |
| 0:58.9 | He is a Republican in name only. |
| 1:01.2 | What he has done to the Republican Party is completely shifted away from its roots |
| 1:05.6 | and to a point that makes absolutely no sense to anyone who would have thought or seen Ronald Reagan speak. |
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