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

repeatedly, signed the 1987 INF Treaty, and his own hardliners called him an appeaser for it. His answer was a Russian proverb: Trust, but verify. Talking to a leader was never the same as going soft on the system. (Preserving the Soviet Union’s territorial unity, it’s worth noting, was Bush’s policy, not Reagan’s — and in my own Georgia, we felt the continue reading …