We continue our look at Newsmax columnist Michael Reagan’s right-wing opinions before his death with a July 22 column in which he (and co-writer Michael Shannon) fervently wishes form President Trump to defy judges who rule against him:
So why, six months into his administration, aren’t these campaign promises a reality?
The answer is outright obstruction by the judiciary.
When the left can’t win at the ballot box, they adjourn to the courtroom where their judges give them victory by judicial fiat.
It’s not majority rule. It’s not “democracy.” It’s one judge, one vote rule.
[…]We wonder what the Trump strategy versus the judges is going to be and when we are going to see it.
The administration has been making a public case that these judges are out of control, while at the same time obeying their arbitrary edicts. And the administration has been appealing these rulings and winning at the appellate court level.
These appellate victories are not cause for celebrations, because these cases are pyrrhic victories. Trump winning a court case months after a left-wing judge imposed his tiny will on the administration is not a victory for Trump and his voters.
It’s a victory for the left.
[…]Trump has to decide if he is the transformational president for whom America voted last November; or he’s a caretaker president who will only do what a gaggle of unelected politicians in black robes say he can do.
The clock is ticking.
Reagan used an Aug. 23 column to have a meltdown over Cracker Barrel changing its logo:
The logo is so woke it wouldn’t look out of place in an NFL end zone.
It’s soulless!
It’s been our policy, when a corporation decides the best way forward is to put its thumb in the eye of the customer base, to no longer be a part of the customer base.
And that’s what’s happened with Cracker Barrel to a certain extent.
Cracker Barrel is no longer a solid choice for a meal any time of day.
It’s just a breakfast joint now and that was before the remodeling and the rebranding.
We’re also closely monitoring pancake quality and if that declines, that’s it.
Reagan had a transgender freakout in an Aug. 30 column, cheering the idea that Roanoke College might havwe to pay punitive damages for allowing a transgender person on the women’s swim team:
Punitive damages?
That’s music to our ears.
Those women deserve a reward for courage and the college administration deserves punishment for cowardice and coercion.
And Roanoke College richly deserves retribution.
“Miyares’ findings also point to possible retaliation against women who spoke out. Six female swimmers who had applied to participate in school-run travel courses were rejected just two weeks after they held a press conference opposing the inclusion of a transgender-identifying male athlete on the women’s team.”
That’s a few million in punitive damages right there.
Job losses would be great too, but we aren’t holding our breath.
The bottom line?
When colleges and universities start suffering financially for their insane, ideologically driven decisions, acting like sane people may start to look attractive for even the most devoted comrade.
Reagan had a hateful take on the death of Charlie Kirk in a Sept. 23 column:
Charlie Kirk’s body hadn’t been released by the medical examiner before the left began lying about his assassination. Even the most committed member of the party of love and compassion knew a father of two killed in front of his children wasn’t good.
Kirk being shot on a college campus filled with indoctrinated students who didn’t want him there in the first place meant it was going to be hard to pin the crime on a member of the Young Republicans.
That didn’t stop the left from trying.
[…]Don’t let the left get away with it. Keep the focus on Charlie Kirk and the left’s homicidal opposition to anyone fearless enough to stand up to them.
In his Oct. 18 column, Reagan got overly excited over a study showing that “the number of young Americans who identify as nonbinary has dropped by nearly half since peaking in 2023”:
That’s what happens when the right pushes back against the lies and delusions of the left.
“Hemales” in female sports, surgical and chemical mutilation of minors and nationwide violence perpetrated by transgenders proved too much for the impressionable young.
[…]In a backhanded way the survey also confirmed what we have long contended.
“Hemales” and the rest of the gruesome transgender parade are mentally ill.
[…]The lesson here is public, persistent, and pointed responses to the left’s agenda of cultural collapse is a successful strategy. If your civic leaders, politicians and preachers aren’t publicly in the arena fighting for a sane, decent, family-oriented culture, you need to find out why.
And the sooner you do so, the better.
Reagan raged about daylight savings time in a Nov. 4 column:
Some of our more irrelevant and history-ignorant Republican members of Congress have been posting videos on X (formerly Twitter) where they pledge to fight for permanent Daylight Savings Time.
As far as we’re concerned, they may as well fight for permanent athlete’s foot.
We were perfectly happy with God’s time which governed human chronology for millennia until “expert” meddlers entered the picture.
God’s time also didn’t require resetting the clocks twice in one year.
What’s more, there is scientific evidence that supports our desire to remain on God’s time year around.God’s time also didn’t require resetting the clocks twice in one year.
What’s more, there is scientific evidence that supports our desire to remain on God’s time year around.
Reagan even groused about a film about his (adoptive) father in a Dec. 16 column:
Harold Fickett, writing in the Daily Signal, reviews the book “Making Reagan” by Mark Joseph. The book shows just how difficult it is to make a movie that expresses a conservative point of view.
And at the risk of being accused of a conflict of interest, your columnists are going to say the book is as good as the movie.
[…]Joseph acquired the film rights and began a 19-year odyssey to turn the book into a movie.
“For 15 years, Joseph endured false starts, rewrites, and betrayals. At one point, Nicolas Cage agreed to play Reagan after meeting Joseph, but later backed out.
“Funding was just as difficult. Joseph turned down financiers who demanded creative control, fearing Hollywood would compromise Reagan’s story.”
Suffice it to say, Joseph’s phone wasn’t ringing off the hook with calls from “conservative” rich folks wanting to put their money where their mouths were.
[…]There is a happy ending to the story of “Reagan,” but not to the continuing fight to counter the poisonous influence of Hollywood.
Fickett is correct when he concludes, “If we are ever to rebuild a healthy culture, it cannot take 19 years to make a movie about Ronald Reagan.
“Conservatives’ unwillingness to support the arts is not caution but cowardice. Without investment in culture, their ideals may vanish.”
Reagan would be dead a month later. More on that soon.