Power Line
John Hinderaker
Sept. 1, 2018
Some of us are old enough to remember when the press dubbed Ronald Reagan the “teflon President.†Reporters meant by that to express their puzzlement at the fact that most Americans didn’t share their hatred for Reagan. They attacked him viciously, more viciously than any president since Herbert Hoover, but when he ran for re-election he carried 49 states. His victory was a massive repudiation of the liberal media.
Countless distinctions could be drawn between Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, but we seem to be living through another teflon moment. The liberal press attacks President Trump even more viciously than it did Reagan. The news consists of little else, day after day. No doubt reporters and editors expected this non-stop assault to destroy Trump’s presidency, and it might yet do so. But up to this point, the Left’s attacks have failed.
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