>https://nickadamsmaga.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-combination-of-reagan
Mar 31, 2025
==Trump is A Combination of Reagan and Churchill - Only Better
Nick Adams==
President Trump recently expressed his support for "FREE ENTERPRISE!!" in a Truth Social post that quoted Winston Churchill and President Ronald Reagan. In the post, President Trump quoted Churchill as saying, "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy… The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
President Reagan was also quoted with the following pithy remark about the same topic, "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven, where they don't need it, and Hell, where they already have it."
Beyond a shared commitment to free markets, these three great leaders, Churchill, Reagan, and Trump, have much in common.
In my book, "Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization," I detailed how both men shared a common resolve, patriotism, and defiance of the steepest political odds that the world had seen in each man's respective era. Beyond the superficialities of a different stature and Churchill's love of a stiff drink, each man is remarkable for a stalwart commitment to political truths that transcend decades, macro-political orientation, and passing fads.
President Reagan also shares a great deal with President Trump. Both men entered politics as outsiders, Reagan as California's greatest governor and Trump as our greatest president. While President Trump's career has always been centered on real estate and property development, like Reagan, he was also someone who brought hours of entertainment to screens across the country.
But more profoundly, both men changed the office of the president forever. Prior to Reagan, many Americans thought that the very office was too big and too arcane for the modern age. President Reagan proved that not only can a strong president revitalize the nation, but he can win big by doing so.
In my book, Trump and Reagan: Defenders of America, I explore how both men put patriotism, national renewal, economic revitalization, and long-standing principles at the front and center of their administrations. Like Reagan, President Trump is even more popular in his second term than in his first.
Let's look at why all three of these great men understood that free enterprise is a key element of building a strong, free, and prosperous society. Many believe that free enterprise and its antithesis, collectivist socialism, are merely differences in economic theory. This is a false understanding of the issue.
In Matthew 4:4, Jesus Christ spoke the following, in reference to Deuteronomy in the Old Testament, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Make no mistake, our modern economic theories cannot be viewed in isolation from our spiritual survival. When socialists take power, they seek to replace the natural law of God, on which our Constitution is based, with the unholy notion that the state functions as a combination of our families, our communities, and most blasphemous, a god on earth.
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