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Perhaps the millions of evangelicals voted for Trump because they agreed with his policies and vision for the country, not his personal life or his "faith".

Yes, and the irony of "values voters" marching behind him in lockstep is not lost on any of us.

One thing is for certain, Trump isn't attacking Christians or going on a world tour to apologize on behalf of Christians for holding to their Christian values.

Since no other president has done that I'm not sure what your point is.
 
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Perhaps the millions of evangelicals voted for Trump because they agreed with his policies and vision for the country, not his personal life or his "faith". One thing is for certain,
That's just it. The vision of America cherished by the right-wing religious extremists is not the America the rest of us want to see made great again.
Trump isn't attacking Christians or going on a world tour to apologize on behalf of Christians for holding to their Christian values.
No other President has done that either.
 
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.Ever hear of the Iranian hostage crisis?

Yes. In fact unlike you I was alive for it and actually lived in Iran a few years before it.

Not sure what you think your point is. The U.S. was still reeling from Vietnam in 1979, the situation in Iran was decades in the making after we overthrew Mosadeq in 1953 and there were numerous hostages taken in Lebanon during Reagan's term including Terry Anderson who was held by Hezbollah from 1985 to 1991, numerous plane hijackings including one in 1985 that resulted in the murder of Navy diver Robert Stethem, the Achille Lauro hijacking in 1985 that resulted in Leon Klinghoffer being thrown overboard, the kidnapping in 1981 of Gen. James Dozier,

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So how do you explain the greatest landslide victory over an incumbent president.

The electoral college map is not a very nuanced or sophisticated way of making a political argument. There are a myriad of factors that go into why a state goes for a president. In 1980 you had a charismatic actor and pitch man with a Hollywood writing staff and Lee Atwater sounding dog whistles vs. a straight shooter who wasn't very sophisticated when it came to the media and wasn't glib.

All that said, "the Left" certainly didn't support Reagan, though I can see why you're confused about that. The right has convinced it's members that anyone as or more "liberal" than Richard Nixon is "a Leftist" or on "the Left".
 
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If you told me any of that I'd tell you that you were living in a delusional fantasy world.
 
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Yeah! Next thing you know people will slide into panic mode and become unhinged if a Muslim is elected to Congress or if people say "Happy Holidays" instead of Merry Christmas".
 
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So how does that justify "feeling offended" by seeing someone wearing a MAGA hat and judge them before a word is even spoken?
Do you agree with the words he says when he speaks derisively about whole groups of people?

It's not about feeling offended so much as recognizing you shouldn't make prejudicial and at least questionable racist statements about people.

Help me understand how one could wear that hat and believe that minorities and all types of immigrants have a place in your society.
 
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And as long as he doesn't wear a tan suit with the hat. It drove a bunch of conservatives bonkers the last time he dared to wear a tan suit out in public. It nearly drove them out of their minds.
Can you imagine if Reagan wore a tan suit?

Oh wait...
 
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If you told me any of that I'd tell you that you were living in a delusional fantasy world.
Would you then consider someone to be "living in a delusional fantasy world" when they feel offended for someone merely wearing a "MAGA" hat without the person ever saying a word?
 
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Help me understand how one could wear that hat and believe that minorities and all types of immigrants have a place in your society.
Because people who wear the hat usually respects the rule of law and wants minorities and all types of immigrants to LEGALLY have a place in their society.
 
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Among other things, the Reagan era is where we began to explode the national debt. Which is why it's extremely humorous that, for a long time, Republicans claimed to be the party of fiscal responsibility.

And the great transfer of wealth upwards. The rising tide lifted all boats, just some boats more than 95% of others.
 
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I've always thought that America was great and been thankful that I was born here. There is room for improvement but it's better than in the past.
20 year old me never felt more self-satisfied in college than when my German WWII vet political science professor appreciated my response to a question he posed about the phrase, "working today for a better tomorrow". I noted that even if today was great, we can always work to make it better. America hasn't not been great for many decades and even longer if we take race relations out of the equation. That we are and have been great doesn't mean we shouldn't strive to make it greater.
 
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He probably wouldn't have waited until Pearl Harbor to finally do something. That's for sure.
Oh indeed he'd probably be turning up in Berlin before that holding an umbrella declaring peace in our time.
 
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A lot of people are offended by the Clintons' and Obama's. You didn't see them behaving the way Trump haters do.
I never cease to be entertained by posts like this which seem to assume everyone else was in a coma from 2008 to 2016.
 
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