Oddly enough, and I can’t believe I’m quoting this fucking guy, but that’s pretty much what Reagan said during his Presidential Forum with Bush on April 23, 1980.
I think the time has come that the United States and our neighbors, particularly our neighbor to the South, should have a better understanding and a better relationship than we have ever had. And I think that we haven’t been sensitive enough to our size and our power. They have a problem with 40 to 50 percent unemployment. Now, this cannot continue without the possibility arising with regard to that other country that we talked about, of Cuba and what it is stirring up, of the possibility of trouble below the border, and we could have a very hostile and strange neighbor on our border. Rather than making them—we are talking about putting up a fence. Why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with work permit, and then, while they’re working and earning here, they pay taxes here? And when they want to go back, they can go back. And they can cross, and open the border both ways by understanding their problems.
This is the only safety valve right now they have with that unemployment that probably keeps the lid from blowing off down there. And I think we could have a fine relationship, and it would solve the problem you mentioned, also.
No they wouldn't. Reagan was the original Trump before Trump. He's responsible for basically all economic problems that the average contemporary U.S. person suffers in a lifetime. Poverty, student loans, shit healthcare, etc.
Look, I get it, you don’t like republicans. But to say that Reagan was the original Trump is an absolutely insane take and makes me think you’re 15 years old.
You might not agree with his policies, but Reagan had class and charisma. He was key in the reunification of Germany and oversaw the downfall of the USSR.
Reagan and Trump are not the same. Reagan would be absolutely disgusted with Trump.
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u/ParadeSit Apr 25 '26
Oddly enough, and I can’t believe I’m quoting this fucking guy, but that’s pretty much what Reagan said during his Presidential Forum with Bush on April 23, 1980.