Staff Reports
When The Gipper was making his bid for governor of California, he made it clear that he wasn’t going to stand for the liberal nonsense going on at places like Berkeley. Those hippie-dippie college campuses were overrun with protests and strikes, and Reagan wanted to put a stop to all that hootenanny. He wasn’t about to let a bunch of long-haired troublemakers disrupt the natural order of things.
Reagan had a simple message for the good people of California: it was time to clean up the mess at Berkeley and other places where the left-wing loonies were causing a ruckus. He believed in law and order, and he wasn’t going to let the commie sympathizers run wild any longer.
Take a tip from Ronald Reagan on handling campus protests https://t.co/bdqPfjc4gu pic.twitter.com/uqUnJBNI02
— NY Post Opinion (@NYPostOpinion) April 26, 2024
The voters saw Reagan as a strong, no-nonsense leader who wasn’t afraid to take on the liberal elite. They were tired of the chaos and disorder, and they knew Reagan was the man to restore peace and sanity to the campuses. And sure enough, once he was elected, he made good on his promise to crack down on the troublemakers and restore some much-needed discipline.
In the end, Reagan’s tough stance on the protests and strikes won him the support of hardworking, law-abiding Americans who were fed up with the counterculture craziness. And it set the stage for his rise to even greater political heights.
