Was Reagan a Leninist?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

"Facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

"So much the worse for the facts!" - György Lukács (Leninist philosopher, literary critic - and briefly and surreally - politician, for those that don't know).

[Tetro Kornbluth]

When Lenin said "Of all the arts, the Cinema is the most important" the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan was not suffice to say what he had in mind as the ultimate success of that prophecy.

[The Mikado]

Leninist party structure: Internal democracy, outward rigid adherence to the party line, whatever that may be.

Reagan's 11th Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of thy fellow Republican.

Coincidence?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Robert G. Ingersoll wrote back in 1877:

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He was a noted Republican orator who gave a famous nominating speech, "Plumed Knight", for Blaine at the 1876 Republican convention.  Said speech is said to have served as the template for FDR's "Happy Warrior" speech for Al Smith at the 1928 Democratic convention.

So clearly FDR was a Leninist too.  Indeed there are some who would say that FDR was more of a Leninist than Reagan ever was.

[Beet]

They are all right.

"'Fact': GDP growth in the 2nd quarter was 2.4%"

Such a statement would be accepted as a 'fact' by our society. But is it really true? Almost certainly not. And we know that it is almost certainly not true. Nonetheless, it possess impeccable pedigree as a fact.

[big bad fab]

I don't know for Reagan, but George W. Bush was probablya very fine Leninist:

Lenin: What is to be done ?

Dubya: "Err... mmm... pfff.... what is to be done, then ?"

[minionofmidas]

There is no such thing as "Leninism". Lenin was a Republican.

[Dr. Cynic]

He was absolutely not a leninist.

But his best buddy was a communist. He and Gorby were BFFs.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

Satlin and Godwin's Law were friends for a while but they share different idealologies.