Tevi Troy

Bringing currency to history; @RonaldReagan & @YUStrausCenter; ex White House aide & @HHSGov Dep Sec; 5 books on the presidency; teacher of @1600Lessons

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

1/3 #ThePowerandtheMoney makes @WSJ’s Top Political books: “Tevi Troy chronicles the variously cold, hostile, friendly & affectionate relationship btn wealthy industrialists & US presidents… Rarely have current events illustrated a book’s theme so nicely” https://t.co/WBJ48IDi2V

[Free Expression @WSJFreeEx]

When Trump grew up, “communist” was about the worst thing that you could call someone. Today, he deploys the C-word in a different world, writes @TeviTroy
https://t.co/oMm97sqMOq

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

“Mr. Trump stands in a long line of communist-bashing American presidents.”

Bravo to @TeviTroy for this piece (and in any future version I hope he includes that RN’s outing of Alger Hiss as a communist spy really launched the American’s left never-ending hatred of RN.)

[Roger Zakheim @RogerZakheim]

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”
@ReaganInstitute Senior Fellow @TeviTroy in @WSJfree discussing @RonaldReagan on communism
https://t.co/0tH8sBwSt6

[Free Expression @WSJFreeEx]

Trump stands in a long line of communist-bashing American presidents. Yet his efforts will be less effective in a post-Cold War world where young elites are increasingly fond of communism, and journalists belittle those who call it out, writes @TeviTroy
https://t.co/DDAWXRWNc3

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

"’This is in his bones,’ said Tevi Troy, a presidential historian & former White House aide to #GeorgeWBush. Troy said anti-communism was not only a bipartisan issue, it was also the dominant view in America” @FrancoOrdonez @NPR on anticommunist presidents https://t.co/fEF1Bfqo6H

[Seth Leibsohn @SethLeibsohn]

“Bashing Communism Is an American Tradition”-
@TeviTroy’s conclusion, here, is THE cultural/political issue & challenge of our day.
https://t.co/xkvT9ruAxf via @WSJFreeEx

[John J. Miller @heymiller]

Reagan: “How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

@TeviTroy: Bashing Communism Is an American Tradition https://t.co/dZBBIvPs3m via @WSJFreeEx

[Free Expression @WSJFreeEx]

Today: @continetti recognizes Democratic enthusiasm; @TeviTroy claims the C-word has lost its Cold War punch; and Christopher Abisi goes fishing with Rich. Plus, @MattHennessey says all the world’s a stage, including (and especially) politics.
https://t.co/ZI5R4XvzKJ

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

Many presidents, Democrat & Republican, have bashed communists. The question is whether the charge still has political resonance & what we have to do to remind people of communism’s evils. My thoughts in @WSJFreeEx. Thanks @MattHennessey, @JackButler4815 https://t.co/KIvGhUrFgY

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#TotalEclipseoftheHeart “seemed like a natural fit for #MeatLoaf. But… ‘Meat Loaf had lost his voice’ … ‘After it was a hit,’ #BonnieTyler recalled, Meat Loaf ‘always used to say: ‘Dang. That song should have been mine!’” @AlexWilliamsNYC #RIP @NYTObits https://t.co/sHjheWtEic

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“‘People are investing in us because they see something valuable for today. That’s the key point,’ @RogerZakheim, Washington director of the @ReaganInstitute, told @JNS_org during a tour of its building, across the street from the White House.” @MWecker https://t.co/KYddg1dliP

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

“our nation’s capital contains no major public monument to #AlexisdeTocqueville…In 1831, he traversed a young, expanding nation by steamboat, horseback & foot. His #DemocracyinAmerica remains the greatest book about our republic” @Jon_Hartley_ @wsjopinion https://t.co/L8HRVajYnP

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

“‘The majority of the DSA’s governing board openly identifies w Communist ideology,’ writes @TheStuStuStudio in @CityJournal. The title of Smith’s piece gives the punchline away: ‘Actually, a Lot of DSA Members Are Communists.’” @MattHennessey, @WSJFreeEx https://t.co/BgswpXowml

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

Report finds across the board “deterioration in scholarly standards fueled by the substitution of political criteria for properly scholarly criteria in the assessment of research & a more general repudiation of longstanding ideals of rigor & objectivity.” https://t.co/dGGcKfZolP

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“In both red and blue America, it is the universal experiences relating to life, death and economics that dominate what people remember about their year.” @b_schaffner & Stephen Ansolabehere
https://t.co/PmD4WZqPxl via @NYTOpinion

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

2/2 “Yet in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. Today, Americans’ life expectancy has jumped from 72.8 years to 79. Only 11% smoke, as opposed to 40% then... Air pollution emissions dropped 70%. Heart attack deaths are down 89%, while cancer death rates have dropped 33%.”

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1/2 “In 1976, Americans feared nuclear annihilation by the Soviet Union. Most smoked like chimneys, choked on smog, & feared cancer & heart attacks as death sentences…” @GilTroy @Gil_Troy @Jerusalem_Post https://t.co/uZ2e6R84b3 cc @DavidSuissaJJ

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

#CalvinCoolidge “used the moment to do what presidents rarely do these days: talk about the Founders, ideals & ideas. He saw the Declaration as a constant in a nation that had changed remarkably in the 150 years since its founding” @SangerNYT
https://t.co/3mEuAcnsif via @NYTimes

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

Interesting Matt Rees piece on #India & the #Revolution:“the British doubled the number of troops they had in India, which meant reducing their presence in the #RevolutionaryWar. It was a critical decision – & one that would have far-reaching consequences” https://t.co/AZxlP4gtrr

[Tevi Troy @TeviTroy]

“Some of the most absolutely patriotic people I know, crazy patriotic people, are American Jews…I don’t mean just @JPodhoretz I mean Tevi Troy - his whole family recognizes that the greatest thing that ever happened to the Jews is America” @JonahDispatch https://t.co/RRrDGp6P71