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The phrase “What would Reagan do?” (often abbreviated to WWRD) has become popular in the United States in the 2000s as a personal motto for thousands of Conservative Republicans who used the phrase as a reminder of their belief that Ronald Reagan is the best example of a conservative politician, and that all Republicans should act in a manner of which Reagan would approve. The initialism WWRD is sometimes also used. It is a phrase used to lambaste what many Republicans perceive as the big spending tendency of the Republican Party. It originated by analogy from the earlier phrase “What would Jesus do?”

(Wikipedia)

Eine der zeitlosesten Antworten auf diese Frage hat Reagan in seiner A Time for Choosing Rede am 27. Oktober 1964 gegeben, in der unter anderem dieser Satz steht, der selbst die Farewell Address in den Schatten stellt:

We cannot buy our security, our freedom from the threat of the bomb by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind the Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters.”

Auf YouTube finden sich die letzten Minuten der Rede; angesichts der hartnäckigen Zeitlosigkeit der moralisierend daherkommenden Unmoral des Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters sind diese 4 Minuten 15 Sekunden sehenswerter denn je:

(Zugegeben, diese Persiflage des WWRD ist auch nicht schlecht.)