How would you describe the perfect conservative . Im not sure there is any thing there is such a thing as a perfect conservative. I am everybody, i think it is like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. It is hard to see the whole picture, but someone with a generosity of spirit, what can they learn from the other camps rather than having theological disputes about different points. You have written as much on Ronald Reagan as anybody. Of those different kind of conservatives, what kind of conservative is Ronald Reagan . Steven he was in idiosyncratic conservative. He was not that conservative, and a couple of ways. He was fond of quoting tom payne. He loved to quote him saying, we have enough power to make the world over again. I remember four years ago, anytime, anywhere, that is nonsense. People say that is part of reagans optimism. There is a truth to that, but on his headstone, i think the word is, i know in my heart that man is good. That certainly leaves out the Christi
Lobbying regulars to go easy on Charles Keating savings and loan, you can blame that unregulated for buckling under political pressure but cant blame reagan for that, thats a commonplace problem. Host ron in arlington, virginia, youre on with steven hayward. Caller great to talk to you today. I think you are exaggerating on the covid 19. The former president was the executive at that time, we should keep that in mind but my question goes to the American First Movement in the 30s and when naziism was spreading through jersey, they issued radios to every citizen and i believe our cable media, fox and msnbc and cnn are entertainment channels. What the impact of the misinformation is why wouldnt we defend the country against all enemies foreign and domestic . Why wouldnt we want to do that . Thank you. I will stay on the line. Guest we do want to do that. The first part of your question, we disagree on who our enemies are. We are all making enemies of the other side to put it in simple ter
How would you describe the perfect conservative . Im not sure there is any thing there is such a thing as a perfect conservative. I am everybody, i think it is like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. It is hard to see the whole picture, but someone with a generosity of spirit, what can they learn from the other camps rather than having theological disputes about different points. You have written as much on Ronald Reagan as anybody. Of those different kind of conservatives, what kind of conservative is Ronald Reagan . Steven he was in idiosyncratic conservative. He was not that conservative, and a couple of ways. He was fond of quoting tom payne. He loved to quote him saying, we have enough power to make the world over again. I remember four years ago, anytime, anywhere, that is nonsense. People say that is part of reagans optimism. There is a truth to that, but on his headstone, i think the word is, i know in my heart that man is good. That certainly leaves out the Christi
, apostle of freedom. How would you describe the perfect conservative . Im not sure there is any thing there is such a thing as a perfect conservative. I am everybody, i think it is like the parable of the blind men and the elephant. It is hard to see the whole picture, but someone with a generosity of spirit, what can they learn from the other camps rather than having theological disputes about different points. You have written as much on Ronald Reagan as anybody. Of those different kind of conservatives, what kind of conservative is Ronald Reagan . Steven he was in idiosyncratic conservative. He was not that conservative, and a couple of ways. He was fond of quoting tom payne. He loved to quote him saying, we have enough power to make the world over again. I remember four years ago, anytime, anywhere, that is nonsense. People say that is part of reagans optimism. There is a truth to that, but on his headstone, i think the word is, i know in my heart that man is good. That certainly
Conservatives, what kind of conservative is Ronald Reagan . Steven he was in idiosyncratic conservative. He was not that conservative, and a couple of ways. He was fond of quoting tom payne. He loved to quote him saying, we have enough power to make the world over again. I remember four years ago, anytime, anywhere, that is nonsense. People say that is part of reagans optimism. There is a truth to that, but on his headstone, i think the word is, i know in my heart that man is good. That certainly leaves out the Christian Doctrine of sin, which others keep in the forefront of their mind. He had libertarian sympathies and traditional sympathies, but he was his own special thing. John when did Ronald Reagan become a conservative . Steven that is an interesting question. Probably in the 40s when he adopted antiliberal it was in the 1950s, especially when he was hosting General Electric theater. He was reading a lot of early conservative literature. They were big, conservative books in the