Assassinating Reagan
Daniel Lucks’ new book tries to skewer the former president as a racist. It fails miserably.
by Paul Kengor
February 3, 2022, 11:08 PM
Call it a coincidence that as Daniel Lucks’ book Reconsidering Reagan arrived in my mailbox, news arrived that John Hinckley was being released from confinement 40 years after attempting to assassinate Ronald Reagan.
Lucks’ book is reflective of a wider character assassination of Ronald Reagan by certain people on the left. There is an aggressive push to reconsider Reagan in the way that modern critical race theorists interpret things: through the prism of race, race, race, and critically, critically, critically, with little charity extended toward the targeted victim. The attacks are cruel and they are working, as leftists angrily besmirch Reagan’s reputation and look to remove his name from buildings, monuments, and whatever they can.
This is wrong. People should not be treated this way, especially when undeserved.
As for Lucks, all of Reagan’s actions are reinterpreted through a modern lens of race — or, I should say, racism, especially via the contemporary leftist charge of racial “dog whistles.” Dog whistles abound, heretofore unseen, but suddenly detectable everywhere by a person of proper leftist mind, training, and discerning abilities. Reagan actions are ascribed the worst intentions; intentions that require some shocking exaggerations and presuppositions by the author.
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