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Phyllis Schlafly lived
Don
Surber’s blog columns are often accessible via some of the aggregators. His
column yesterday (via Lucianne.com) was a tribute to Phyllis Schlafly, who passed away over the Labor Day weekend. While
many Tea Party people will be aware that Mrs. Schlafly’s organization Eagle
Forum was recently challenged with a hostile takeover by a faction led, sadly,
by her daughter, Surber’s tribute is entirely about Mrs. Schlafly’s courage and
effectiveness as a champion of conservative principles. Here's some of his blog column:
The Labor Day death of Phyllis
Schlafly at 92 brought out the trolls among the left who called her names. Her
death matters less than her life. She kept pushing for an unvarnished and
unapologetic conservatism, as championed by Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
World Net Daily
published her last column a few hours ago. [It’s also up on Eagle Forum here.]
Donald Trump’s
surprise visit to Mexico, where he met the Mexican president and discussed the
many contentious issues between our two countries, reminds me of President
Reagan’s important trip to Geneva in 1985. Reagan was more than willing to sit
down with the Communist leader of the USSR in an effort to build a personal
connection between the two men without sacrificing America’s vital interests in
the Cold War.
The 1985 Geneva
summit was highly advertised as a potential showdown between Reagan and Mikhail
Gorbachev, the supposedly reasonable new Soviet leader. When it was over,
Americans realized that behind Reagan’s genial affability was a steely
determination to protect our country against the threat from Soviet nuclear
missiles.
Just as today’s
mainstream media are bent on undermining Trump’s call to put Americans first in
our dealings with Mexico, the media of the 1980s (led by ABC’s Sam Donaldson
and CBS’ Dan Rather) were overwhelmingly pro-Gorbachev and anti-Reagan in their
daily coverage.
Her column is a reminder that we are on the right course, and we should remain true. The critics who hate America -- its self-reliance, its upward mobility, its sheer majesty -- never change. Only our heroes do.
Read the rest here.
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