Democrats and media types today pretend to pine for Reagan as the ‘respectable’ kind of Republican.
But that’s only because he’s now safely in the rearview mirror of history and can do us no more harm. When he was in office, they HATED him, and mocked his policies.
What Reagan introduced as a Strategic Defence Initiative was given a derisive nickname by his enemies in the press. ‘Star Wars’. They mocked him for it. The real problem was not his vision so much as the fact that technology hadn’t yet caught up with the vision.
Forty years have passed since then, and tech has changed… and Trump is picking up Reagan’s dream and running with it.
Innovation is now at the point where we now carry supercomputers in our pocket and have private industry delivering payloads into space.
Since the end of the Cold War, we’ve seen Israel deliver proof of concept evidence that Reagan’s idea of a missile shield. Thousands of rockets inbound to Israeli cities have been shot down with minimal harm — even when the incoming attacks come in waves. The next jump in innovation will be a laser layer of defense that doesn’t require the supply-chain