Episode 47 Hour of Decision: What About the New Reagan Movie?

It’s great to be able to talk about a movie actually shown at movie theaters across America that is at least somewhat conservative and anti-communist. Such a film is Reagan starring Dennis Quaid and John Voight. The film was written by Paul Kengor, a legitimate anti-communist author who wrote Dupes. It is impossible for a movie to capture the complexities involved with a life and career like Reagan’s. I do not agree with the overarching assessment that the Cold War was “won,” by Reagan or anyone else, a controversial sentiment I briefly explain in this episode. I give some background concerning John Birch Society leader Congressman Larry McDonald, who was a passenger on a commercial airliner KAL-007, shot down by the Soviets during Reagan’s tenure. The gulf between the critics and the audience on Rotten Tomatoes (audience 90+%, Critics, 20% or so) says it all about our elites. I am completely for promoting anticommunist, pro-conservative films and despite any other deficiencies I could identify, this movie qualifies. So go see it, its still in many theaters, or rent it."A Time for Choosing" by Ronald Reagan (youtube.com)A Time for Choosing Speech, October 27, 1964 | Ronald Reagan (reaganlibrary.gov)https://www.atr.org/united-states-used-competition-win-cold-a1134/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/01/08/us/analysis-how-richard-allen-finally-was-forced-to-resign.htmlFrom friend of the show, J.R. Nyquist, a voice of authority on the strategic deception of the U.S. by the USSR:https://jrnyquist.blog/2023/12/13/golitsyns-revelations-the-big-picture/comment-page-1/