Now up – Dinesh D’Souza. He made the trek from CPAC here. A bit of humor since he’s the last speaker before lunch, quoting Henry XIII – “I won’t keep you very long.”
The Reagan Revolution has been played out, but the general ideas live on and need a new direction.
He started off by being part of Dartmouth’s conservative paper.
What made Reagan Reagan? He had a euclidian confidence that he was right. He wasn’t “open-minded” in a liberal-arts sense because he knew where he wanted to go.
He was also indifferent to the power of the punditry.
When he was asked to reverse his early monetary policy because his popularity was plunging, he said “Maybe it’s time for me to be shot again.”
I’m just going to have to let the tape to the talking on the Reagan stories. Once again, I can’t do Dinesh justice.
Reagan realized that one can’t change the world in 45 ways; the most one can hope for is to change it in 2 or 3 ways.
Ultimately, Reagan believed in the vitality of the American dream. Sometimes, we activists get tired by fighting battle after battle. The good news is, if we keep the core of the American dream in front of us, then ultimately we will not only endure but prevail.
