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Monday, January 20, 2025

Should Trump Be Compared to Reagan or Churchill?

My VIP for this week is obviously Donald Trump, the newly inaugurated 47th President of the United States. Numerous people have compared Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan. However, Carrie Sheffield compares him to someone else. She claims that Trump’s “path bears striking resemblance to former Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the British bulldog who triumphed over existential threats of World War II.” Sheffield’s article in The Daily Signal continued as follows: 

And like Churchill, Trump, the American lion, is uniquely equipped and battle-tested for his enormous tasks at hand.


Most obviously, both men were entrusted with their nation’s top elected role, failed to assume a second term, but came roaring back years later for a triumphal return to office.


Both men dodged physical bullets and displayed strong conservative instincts, though not in lockstep to conservative, partisan litmus tests. They both in some ways zigged and zagged right, left, then right again….


Perhaps because of their independent streaks, they were both hated by establishment forces seeking to marginalize their rise to power. Yet both men prevailed, in part by bucking Western orthodoxies that refused to wisely assess the world’s greatest geopolitical risks….


Both men came from wealthy families and both were raised by immigrant mothers. Churchill’s mother was a wealthy American, and Trump’s mother an impoverished Scottish immigrant who worked as a domestic servant for three years prior to marrying Fred Trump.


Both men suffered significant career setbacks before taking the highest office….


Both men displayed legendary showmanship skills, with a knack for driving a news cycle and whipping up public intrigue. Both used politically incorrect, unvarnished language….


Both men were staunchly pro-Jewish interests, yet both forged peaceful solutions in the Middle East that also considered Arab nations.


In some ways, both men grew more conservative with age as “modern” culture shifted left….


Both men unabashedly embraced Western values that laid the foundation for unprecedented peace and prosperity. Both were flawed human beings – as we all are – but ultimately heroes. As such, we owe Churchill and Trump debts of gratitude.

  


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