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President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again movement was one of the most enduring in American history. It lasted ten years.
It began when he came down the escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015 and announced his presidential bid and ended when he attacked Iran on Feb. 28, 2026.
Similar was the Reagan Revolution, 1980 to 1990. It ended when President George H.W.
Bush broke his Reaganesque “Read my lips, no new taxes” pledge and soon launched the Gulf War. I tuned into the Sept.
9-10 Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas as I worked at my desk. And I gave full attention to some of the major speeches, especially those by Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
The convention’s purpose was to rally the MAGA faithful to defeat the Democrats on Nov. 3 to keep Republican control of Congress.
It turned into a requiem for a dead movement. Almost every speaker railed against “socialism” and “communism.” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana: “The Democrat Party has been completely taken over by crazy communists.
I call it the Bolshevik Revolution.” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota referred to “the Communist Party, excuse me, the Democrats…. These people aren’t even socialists.
They’re communists and they’re anarchists and they hate our country.” This is a last-gasp appeal to Boomers, vanishing by up to 1.5 million a year, to win one more for both the Gipper (Ronald Reagan) and JFK’s “long twilight struggle” against communism.
But the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, 35 years ago. I talk to young people.
They have no idea what communism was. Socialism, to them, is Medicare for All, lower prices, getting rid of college debt and a good job.
Merriam-Webster defines socialism as “collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production.” Hmmm. That sounds like Trump in August 2025 socializing a 10% equity stake in Intel.
Politico reported Sept. 3, Donald J.
Marx now is “shaking up federal involvement in the mining, tech, energy and defense sectors by making the government a part owner of dozens of U.S. companies.” Trump also pledged to give $5,000 checks to adult citizens if Republicans keep control of Congress.
Free-marketers charged it was socialism because it would cost $1.3 trillion on top of the $40 trillion debt. Actually, it was a joke.
Like the tariff “dividend of at least $2,000 a person” he promised on Nov. 9, 2 025, it never will happen.
Successful political movements attract adjacent supporters. During MAGA, many Hispanics supported Trump because, according to a Pew pre-2024 election survey , their top priorities were the economy, violent crime and immigration.
On Sept. 10, Cook Political Report Publisher Amy Walter posted new Cook-Univision polling of Texans.
It found “Trump’s ’24 coalition in shambles. Almost 1 in 5 Trump ’24 [Latino] voters now disapprove of POTUS.” Among Latinos, Democratic state Rep.
James Talarico led scandal-plagued Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton by 33 percentage points. In his keynote address , Trump rose to the occasion one last time.
Parts of it almost seemed like his rousing 2024 convention speech. Proving his stamina at 80, he blathered for a Castroish 1 hour and 45 minutes.
In one of the few mentions of his Iran War over the two days, he promised “oil will be going down as soon as we win the war with Iran, which is taking place right now.” The war crowded out the Dallas cheers. Sept.
9: Iran launched more missiles into a U.S. base in Jordan.
Brent crude rose above $100 a barrel for the first time since July. Sept.
10: Houthi rebels in Yemen sei zed the port city of Mokha, on their way to seizing Perim Island the next day and gaining control of a Red Sea choke point. Brent crude rose above $107.
In his closing speech, Trump promised to “cheat like hell, like they do.”
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