This anger and fear driven politics is exhausting. Normal people prefer peace and being friendly.

Trump's campaign platform for making America great again consists of 4 policies. 1. Calling people names. 2. Ranting about things that never happened. 3. Violating our Constitution 4. Mocking our men and women in uniform. Marine veteran. Semper Fi..

Reagan would go bananas at the thought of letting Russia invade anyone

Answer is.....NO! honor, integrity, dignity and morals are no longer a part of this Republican party!

Reagan would NOT like his party kissing up to Putin

Why Trump would disrespect John McCain is beyond me. McCain was a good man. Never Trump!

If someone had told me 10in 1980 that we’d have a president like Trump that would make us look back at Reagan so positively, I’d have said they were nuts.

I'm sorry, but I am old enough to remember Reagan and his administration during the 80's. He started a lot of this crap. He allowed the Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians (Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority) into the White House, he had a huge military buildup, started de-regulation, blew up the debt and deficits, gave tax breaks to Corps and Rich, Iran-Contra, "Reaganomics", War on Drugs, started the de-funding of public schools, didn't do anything regarding HIV/AIDS until Nancy's friend Rock Hudson died, and allowed some of the GOP to start with the division of the public. He was NO Moderate, he was Right wing and maybe not as bad as some today. But he leaned right hard on his policies. Trump and MAGA is the end result of the things Reagan set in motion 40 years ago.

Reagan would be labeled a RINO today.

Reagan’s motto was; FEED THE HORSES SO THE PIGEONS CAN EAT. 😲, he definitely believed the Corporations should have all the power over the people.

He was a damn monster. He started so many of the economic disasters of today.

Reagan doubled the federal deficit. Give me a trillion dollar credit card and I can make the economy look good for a little while too. 🤔

Reagan put us on this path.

To hear from President Reagan's daughter that today's Republican party would make him disillusioned and on an island is sad to hear.

... Ronald Reagan would fit right in - everything for the rich, nothing for the working class ! You aren't the only one whose old enough to remember Reagan - and Thatcher - Jim ! ...

2.6 trillion in national debt, in 1980 dollars never ever gets mentioned.

No, neither would Nixon

Reagan's trickle down economics gutted the American middle class which led to Trump being able to launch his fear and loathing campaign

His policies are part of what got us to where we are now.

She's grown into such a wise and thoughtful woman. Thank you Patti. Fear yes at the heart of so much of this rage we are seeing.

While there are many presidents that I have vehemently disagreed with on policy I never doubted their love of our country all except one,and that one is donald trump.

"Keep government out of our boardrooms and our bedrooms." - Ronald Reagan

Trump: "I do solemnly swear, that I will faithfullyDesecrate the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, defile, per vert, andViolate the Constitution of the United States. So help me Putin.....if you're listening."

Immigration is different from illegal entry into the country.

No doubt, the answer is yes. The country has changed, becoming far more right-wing, Reagan would be much more open about his racism and liberal bashing. He would be a leader of MAGA, today.

From Sweden; Such a warm, wise, respectful conversation ❤

I remember growing up as a kid in the 80's when Reagan was president and it wasn't "The Shining City On The Hill" as there were quite a bit of the same problems back then as well but it did seem like there was more of a willingness for people no matter which party to at least come to some sort of common ground to find solutions to problems or at least make an attempt to instead of at each others throats like now. I also felt like as a kid despite all of these problems happening in the world back then I also felt that there was a chance to do something exciting and something that actually had meaning to it and to feel useful for something but I don't see that same optimism now but the opposite as everyone just seems to be more cynical and want's to put everyone down just so they feel better about it. A different America than what I remember as a kid. We also had better movies back then and music that inspired hope as well instead of well I don't know what kind of inspiration there is for kids now. Us kids back then actually did stuff with each other because we didn't have the internet, social media, youtube, Twitter blah!blah!blah! We actually lived.

People allow themselves to be frightened. When in public smile at people, especially those different than you, say hi, nice weather, rock on, to the other political party, to a happy person, an unhappy person, hold a door open. It makes a difference. Someone who is smiled at, who someone says something nice to, treats others nicer. A friendly word, 4 seconds, ripples on to people you will never know. So, hi there, you reading this, have a nice day.

Yes; Reagan ran his first campaign on a racist theme. He would fit right in.

He helped create this Frankenstein. Reagan was deplorable. The crack epidemic put blood on his hands. He didn't say the term AIDS for 4 years, after hundreds of thousands of people died.

*BREAKING NEWS* Actor Bradley Cooper to play Ron Desantis and Maria Menounos to play his wife Casey Desantis, Sean Penn to play California governor Gavin Newsom and Nathan Lane will play Sean Hannity in a Christopher Nolan film called “Insurrection”.

simple answer no because he was pro nato and anti russian expansion . easy answer

He was an "advance" on Nixon in establishing the grounds that would eventuate in Trump.

Only George Wallace would come close to beating Trump in today’s Republican party.

I’m old enough to know she was disowned by her family. Interesting, maybe with age, she’s looking at her parents differently. But it will be from a "wild child" early 20’s viewpoint. How does she know feelings of her Father? I don’t think a book is necessary.

He was just like Tr😮ump his views and statements started a lot of this racism that we know today.

Patti Davis didn't even like her father's Republican Party.

Back then republicans believed in the constitution. They worked out their differences but kept respect for their democratic colleagues. They didn't incite violence, outrageous lies, fears, threats, and they didn't side with our enemies they would stand with their country. They didn't cheat and rig elections. They understood what it means to have a democracy over autocracy. Corruption and criminal behavior wasn't rampant in their party. There are so many differences between 30 years ago to today. 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸

Yes, disrespect for others is a real big problem

Wish you peace, Patti.

Playing both the National Anthem and the "Black National Anthem" shows that the racist "separate but equal" idea is alive and well in 2024.

Patti Davis needs to remember her dad coined the phrase "Welfare Queen" and pulled so much federal grant money for college tuition that tens of thousands of people had to drop out of college. I almost had to drop out thanks to Ronnie Reagan.

CNN's rating are in the toilet.

Fact: Ronald Reagan was an actor who was heavily financed by military corporations & when Reagan took office the budget for the military inflated exponentially. Reagan is accused of extreme interference with developing countries who wanted to choose either democracy or socialism - both systems of government that would have made the price of oil, gas and other resources increase. Genocide in Guatemala, the Iran contra affair in Nicaragua, just two examples. The possession of guns also accelerated due to the lack of regulation during his term. At Woodstock, 1969, when Reagan was just Governor of California, this song was sung in his honor, “He’s a drugstore gun toting man, he’s the head of the ku klux klan. When trouble comes rolling around, you’ll be lucky to get out of town. He don’t like resistance I know, cause he said it last night on a big TV show, he’s an all night singer in a country band, & if you don’t like him, you don’t understand”

It reminds me of a time when disagreement didn't mean A knockdown down drag-out fight. disagreement didn't lead to hate, fear and threats of violence, disagreement then often meant trying to find a way to work out our differences.

All you have to do is look around Muerica and it's easy to see what happened to the republican party.. Trump just brought all that out..

I still believe the most important saying or advice we as a nation ever received was" the only thing we have to fear is ,fear itself" and Roosevelt made that statement coming out of the great depression we hadn't even gotten to WWII ! It's the most important statement still in the last 100 years!

No he would be the ultimate RINO to them.

Reagan, great sense of humor, emotionally detached and known as the Great Communicator Trump, zero brain, narcissistic and the Great Alienator

Hell no Reagan wouldn’t be accepted. The GQP would label him RINO almost immediately.😂

Would Reagan be accepted by GOP? NO, it's trump party now .

I'm a long time Democrat, but I voted Reagan for a second term. He was a Great Communicator! Even if he used a lot words to say nothing sometimes, a least we did not live in fear. WE can have this going forward, but not by voting for Trump or his cronies. Thanx Patti Davis for some insight!

I think Regan would say what republican party ?

I was a kid in the Reagan Years. My Stepfather watched every Speech and address to the Nation! President Reagan was funny, intelligent, and articulate! He was another true Statesman! He loved his Country and Our Military! Trump has NONE of those qualities!

Patti Davis writes "So what would my father say about the decline of civility and the ominous future of our democracy?" Considering her father who declared "if it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with" as well as the nuggets “A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.” hired T.K. Jones to emote: "Dig a hole, cover it with a couple of doors and then throw three feet of dirt on top. . . . It's the dirt that does it. . . . . If there are enough shovels to go around, everybody's going to make it." This bit of cheery advice was offered by Thomas K. ("T.K.") Jones, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Strategic and Theater Nuclear Forces in a 1982 interview with Robert Scheer of The Los Angeles Times. And it wasn't just what Ronald Reagan said, it was what he didn't say about AIDS, weapons for Contras, cocaine and Kissinger. After the invasion of Grenada, Reagan decided to take on Cuba, now is the time for your tears Bob Dylan wrote.

The reason why she did not want to get into details is because she would not have known what to criticize specifically. So she chose to just skim over things saying nothing special, but in the end, as she went on, she became lame.

Raegan was a terrible human-being, and the Reaganomic-principles of "free-market & trickle-down economics" have utterly-failed the USA by every measure except how much political-donors are able to enrich-themselves, to the extent that they are still practiced today. Patti needs to get real

With all the damage has done to the country with his "trickle down economics" i guess he shouldn't be. But even while he single-handedly annihilated the american dream he might still be a better choice now instead of anyone the current GOP has to offer.

Reagan used fear to win both times. Used the Iran hostiges, against Carter. Used Willie Horton against Mondale. How soon we forget.

Yesterday's GOP Republican mindset was to "go back" and live in the past. Today's GQP Republicans mindset is hard for them to think critically. Either way, where all think alike, not one of them thinks very much.

No. It took all the way from 2006 to 2008, before John McCain let them take hold of Republican Party. President Reagan wouldn't be radical enough. Ex Reagan Republican

I think Ronald would revisit his past quote “I didn’t leave the Republicans they left me”.

Shame, so that"s what once was a president of our country???

Dear Mom & Dad: I'm 71yrs old, posed in playboy in 1994 and again at age if 58yrs. I've written tell all books about my family and have pretty much accomplished nothing and lived an entitled existence. Now I'm under the impression that my opinion matters. Nope not really Patti. Not interested.

Bring it backk

the question is wrong, would reagan be just like the rest of the republicans. Probably.

He would build a bigger wall than TRUMP could ever dream of.

I will never forget how Reagan stopped funding for low income housing and opened the door wide open to homelessness. Also, his daughter broke the relationship from her father because she could not stand some of his policies.

Hahahaha - sorry CNN - coulda, shoulda, woulda is a lost cause and it aint werking - you fools! Americans and the world see the Biden WH and laughs and acts - hahahaha

GOP was different

Democracy is at the lowest index in countries where аuthoritаrian, соrruрt and dictаtorial rеgimes are in power. Bribery is the highest: 1)Azerbaijan 2)North Korea 3)Syria 4)Iran 5)Russia 6)Turkmenistan 7)Belarus 8)Uzbekistan 9) Myanmar 10)Tajikistan

"That's why american's loved him..." Not me. And definitely not a lot of other people.

When SCOTUS says Trump must be allowed on the ballot, they are in effect saying "Trump is NOT GUILTY! 😊

Reagan would build the wall if immigrant don't obey our laws legally

Reagan was plenty racist enough for today's republican party... let's not try to rewrite history

Trump would call Reagan a RINO! He's the one, who define what's a Republican. Totally crazy !

BREAKING: NY, Vermont, New Hampshire see record illegal border crossings as more migrants enter Canada. How did they get to Canada? They didn't walk. Why hasn't Canada stopped them?

Great man who took America to the forefront .

This “ wild child” disowned by her parents now makes her living reminiscing about them… this is a worthless segment.

He probably would not be accepted. The GOP has replaced the Dems as the anti-war party. Reagan was as hawkish as they come, though his strong-arm tactics with the air traffic controllers would still be needed to keep a lid on things.

Where's Hunter? lol

#Blacks4Trump 👍🏿👍🏿😃

I would vote for Reagan if he was to run for President.

Both parties are at blame for this mess We need term limits and the only thing a politician needs to run for Office is public debates and a website when millions of dollars are put into these campaigns, the donors become the constituents instead of the people

No, but Reagan definitely started it.

America was dumb enough to elect Reagen the movie star over a fine man like Jimmy Carter. Duh

I hate this revisionist history NONSENSE about how they remember a GOP that was different back then. Stop romanticizing the past: it was Reagan's iteration of Conservatism that begat Trumpism!

Sorry for my cruelty. The current amorality of class separation, of Us versus Them, the Era of Greed, had it's seeds in the Reagan years. When W Bush was elected we said, "We survived Reagan, we'll survive Bush." I just don't think we did.

Yes. Real question is "would 'Democrats" today accept John F Kennedy?" Today's 'Democrats" are all about asking what their country can do for them, instead of what they can do for their country.

You can draw a line from Raegan to today. Rhetoric like, "The government cannot solve your problems" has devolved into Jan. 6.

Such nonsense is the the reason why you are becoming less and less relevant. You are doing it to yourselves.

It was your father's fault

Reagan would have the same MAGA slogan for sure. Google Reagans 1980 campaign slogan😂 We are so stupid

Of course he would. He started the years of america paying for nothing. Eighteen times he raised the national debt. Im not sure however he could produce enough hate for todays republican.

Great endorsement for Trump. Reagan was atrocious

She gets FLUSHED too

Christianity is masterful at the synergy between fear and anger and has been for 2000 years!

"Something is broken in us". True words. Who or what broke it?? Why are they trying to keep it broken? These questions really need answers. In all the analysis, I haven't heard any convincing answer.

The reality of politics is that 35 years is a long time and parties priorities change. A prime example of this are Democrats. In 1965 not one Democrat voted for the civil rights act, flash forward to 2000 Democrats need the black vote to win.

Hitler would be accepted in todays republican party.