Same as the old boss
- Thread starter Cricket
- Start date
- Mar 19, 2006
- 38,177
- 356
- 83
- 74
Use prior to Donald Trump
Use by Alexander Wiley
The phrase was used by Republican senator Alexander Wiley in a speech at the third session of the 76th United States Congress in anticipation of the 1940 United States presidential election: "What is the way? Here is America. There are 130,000,000 of us. America needs a leader who can coordinate labor, capital, and management; who can give the man of enterprise encouragement, who can give them the spirit which will beget vision. That will make America great again."[10]
Use by Barry Goldwater
See also: Barry Goldwater 1964 presidential campaign
The slogan was found in some advertising associated with Barry Goldwater's unsuccessful 1964 presidential campaign.[11]
Use by Ronald Reagan
See also: Ronald Reagan 1980 presidential campaign
A button from Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign
"Let's make America great again" was first used in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. At the time the United States was suffering from a worsening economy at home marked by stagflation and Reagan, using the country's economic distress as a springboard for his campaign, used the slogan to stir a sense of patriotism among the electorate.[12][13][14][15] Within his acceptance speech at the 1980 Republican National Convention, Reagan said, "For those without job opportunities, we?ll stimulate new opportunities, particularly in the inner cities where they live. For those who?ve abandoned hope, we?ll restore hope and we?ll welcome them into a great national crusade to make America great again."[16][17]
Use by Bill Clinton
See also: Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign
The phrase was also used in speeches[18] by Bill Clinton during his 1992 presidential campaign.[19] Clinton also used the phrase in a radio commercial aired for Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential primary campaign.[20]
During the 2016 electoral campaign, Clinton suggested that Trump's version, used as a campaign rallying cry, was a message to white Southerners that Trump was promising to "give you an economy you had 50 years ago, and ... move you back up on the social totem pole and other people down."[21]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_America_Great_Again
There is nothing new or special about Donald Trump...
Just an old & tired rhetoric by a Game Show Host elected President by an old and tired processes.
But that too will be eradicated.
- Mar 19, 2006
- 38,177
- 356
- 83
- 74
