They called Reagan an ‘amiable dunce.’ Now it’s Trump’s turn

easy to overstate: Harsh coverage does not pull a trigger, and I am not suggesting it does. But both men, in the end, faced a gun: Reagan outside the Washington Hilton in 1981, Trump at Butler in 2024. Political violence has no party. That, at least, should be beyond dispute.

An honest concession and a reversed verdict

Not every criticism of Reagan was continue reading …