PJ Media
Michael Walsh
Mar. 24, 2018
Presidents who come from outside the professional political class run and win on their lack of Washington experience. But once they get to the capital, it seems, they quickly fall prey to Beltwayitis as the scourges and blood-suckers of the District of Columbia attach themselves, lamprey-like, to their extremities and begin feeding. Entering office without a K Street Rolodex, new chief executives are forced to staff up by relying on the suggestions of others -- often, the very same politicians and consultants they defeated on their way to the White House.
Thus it was that back in the '80s the cry went up to "let Reagan be Reagan," as the president's conservative supporters both inside the administration and across the country felt stifled by the business-as-usual johnnies who had entered Reagan's orbit in part through his forced marriage with the consummate insider, George H. W. Bush (that's how you got Bush). Naturally, the media, which hated Reagan back then almost as much as it hates Donald Trump today, sneered at the notion of a liberated Ronnie, preferring to see his presidency through its customary prism of Stupid Republicans:
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