“To appreciate what ____________ has achieved, you’d have to go back to the previous drifting, demoralized America, of the one that had made its peace with decline, the America of stagnation at home and drift abroad and a general even un-American defeatism.
The challenge had become how to stave off defeat as long as possible, just to survive, not how to triumph. The spirit of that America was unnatural, ungainly and unflattering.
If it can ever be said that one man, ___________, changed everything, he is the one man. And he did it the way he does everything, dramatically. There is no conventional way to explain so unconventional turn of events.”
Comment: My wife, Deborah, was digging through some old files and came upon this short article by syndicated columnist, Paul Greenburg.
I call this a classic case of what goes around, comes around.
Fill in the blanks, Reagan or Trump? This was originally written about President Reagan but it sounds about like the corrections President Trump has undertaken to get America back on track. I just find it interesting that we survive at all, the way we seem to get whipsawed with each change of party in power.
I do not know the exact date or which newspaper published it.
Marv Covault