Says Kieran Laffey, George Washington University college student, quoted in "Why Gen Z conservatives love the ‘Reagan Bush ’84’ tee/They weren’t alive in the ’80s, but to them, 'Reagan is still a vibe'" (WaPo).
The article notes that you can easily buy these shirts on line. They just look vintage. We're told it's "the conservative take on a band shirt or the once-ubiquitous Che Guevara tee."
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The pendulum swings.
People don’t know why these things happen until they study history. There was always going to be a swing to the right and certain types of nostalgia.
The only real variation in these patterns is that the town square, X, is open and unfettered by the ruling class.
Times are going to be interesting for sure.
I'm not going to try to act cool, this is amazing.
For years, many of us said "Don't youth see that being on the left is conventional and being anti-progressive is the real rebellious act??" I've never witnessed a left-to-right shift like this.
My "Haig '88" shirt will someday get the same revival.
Before in history when the ruling elite tightened their grip too hard the people disadvantaged by the social contract have always found a way to communicate and organize.
The t-shirts are an interesting symbol of group affiliation.
Never before have so many people been able to communicate and organize and express their thoughts so publicly after being suppressed by a tyrannical regime.
'..like a hole in the head' was the Nixon tee I recall.
That was my first election I voted in- I turned 18 that Summer. My parents both voted for Mondale, I think- I know mother did- she voted for Democrats her entire life until 2016- my father might have voted for Reagan in the re-election run but my memory is that he only started voting Republican in 1988. I voted for Reagan in 84.
Ah Nixon. Will we swing far enough to make him the hero?
He was the second presidential victim of the deep state. They just flat out shot Kennedy.
When the truth of these events are examined in the open by millions of people without state filters most are going to conclude that Nixon was right.
The FBI and CIA are in for a rough decade. They have earned it.
As a curiosity, I was also one of the people who put Mitch McConnell in the Senate- that was his initial election- he beat Walt Huddleston in a close election by 5000 votes if my memory isn't betraying me.
Only idiot leftists wear che shirts. Yo leftists - why not skip past and just wear an Adolph shirt?
Nixon’s the one. I went to the Nixon library in Yoruba Linda a while back, Nixon was badly treaded by a bunch of creeps. He had a scope and core you don’t find in people today but all good people are required to hate him.
I still think Nixon is a turd. I can't get my mind right!
Nixon ordered a freeze on wages and prices.
Whip inflation now! You moron.
Soft on Communism abroad, and introducing it here!
Tricky Dick
I've donated most of my Reagan memorabilia to the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, but kept the Reagan/Bush 84 t-shirt. They were big in the frat world when my son attended college - unfortunately he was too big to fit into my vintage one.
Do you lefties see how sad this is - wearing a shirt or hat supporting the current President is confrontational to liberals. Free speech, brother. Free speech.
The Bush part isn't really anti-establishment. Indeed, it was pretty much Reagan's outreach to the establishment.
"Kennedy/Johnson" bumper stickers had a vogue in the 1980s. Liberals felt less foolish than if they had dared put a Mondale or Dukakis sticker on their cars.
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Nixon and Reagan have changed places in recent years. The Reagan Library has gone NeverTrumper, while the Nixon Library has been sympathetic and appreciative. Nixon, for all his many faults, was a "fighter." He had to be. Reagan, once the "extremist" outsider, has become almost an Establishment figure, a symbol of adaptation and assimilation, rather than confrontation.
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Even when I was a young conservative, I avoided "Young Conservatives" and "Young Republicans," a wise move since one of the leaders at my college ended up in prison.
Democratic lies only work on certain types of people. ever shrinking.
The left's answer? Up thy lying.
Is it sad or do lefties thrill at having the muscle of the mob behind them?
Ronald Reagan Riding a Velociraptor
Somewhere I have a tshirt, unless my wife tossed it, black with a picture of Che Guevara. The iconic one with the pussy hat. Bought it 25 years ago.
Only mine has the red circle around it with a diagonal line. Underneath it says "Commies aren't cool"
Maybe I need to dig it out.
John Henry
Time to start printing Pinochet t-shirts:
I love the cartoon of Che wearing a Bart Simpson shirt.
The bottom three presidents...
Richard Nixon
Joe Biden
Woodrow Wilson
I have a George Bush 2004 T-shirt. Should my College Co-ed daughter wear it on campus as an act of rebellion?
The democrats have hate, lies, more lies, delusion and mental illness. "And they're not going to stop."
I have a DOGE t-shirt. Do not have the courage to wear it.
Add to that - I never wear t-shirts that say anything.
Che was a commie killer and subversive. Mao was a mass murderer. Yet Leftist think it ok to wear their image on T-shirt or tote around their "red book".
The Ghosts of Hitler and Himmler must be sad. "Why don't I get a T-shirt?"
RC ocean - 11:08 - that is exactly right.
Pence 2024 T-shirt. The ultimate subversive statement.
It's funny reading a tribute to California's most powerful politicians and Republican Icons. Don't forget Herbert Hoover, folks.
Pence 2024 T-shirt. The ultimate subversive statement.
Pence looks like a depressed Race Bannon action figure. "I was traveling the world, fighting bad guys. And then I got sucked into politics."
Sad.
Why not this one?
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1805218947/nine-lives-baby-t-shirt-funny-trump-cat
Or this one?
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1554719575/unisex-funny-donald-trump-soft-t-shirt
It's interesting that the 1984 shirt is the big one, and not 1980. Subconscious thoughts about Orwell, maybe.
If your bookclub is reading 1984, don't forget to wear your Reagan T-shirt!
Can I burn a t-shirt containing an image of the flag?
Bloc empathy has DEIst implications and should be indulged sparingly.
My son had a Reagan/Bush shirt, but that was at least a decade ago. I'm going to text him and tell him he was ahead of the trend. Maybe I'll get him that Nixon one for Christmas.
I kinda want to buy a Dark Brandon T-shirt.
The worst campaign of my life. Maybe the worst re-election campaign ever run. So bad, he was forced to withdraw before the election. Completely out of touch.
That will probably be a valuable T-shirt one day. You'll have to explain to the kids who Dark Brandon was.
Why would you run as a villain? Seriously.
"Go for Goldwater"
It's because it is too dangerous to wear MAGA or Trump because Democrat Party members are hateful, violent psychotics and likely to physically attack the wearer.
Says everything about what kind of lowlife thug scum populates the Democrat Party when someone else's colors incite them to violence. Democrat Party members are no different than gang members.
It's because it is too dangerous to wear MAGA
I think that's right. Not so much violent attacks at a university, but getting bad grades, arguments, dirty looks, all that stuff.
(The shirts) represent a moment of dominance for the GOP — the absolute electoral college rout that year — and a broader nod to American nostalgia.
I think Donald Trump loved the 1980's. So when he says, "Make America Great Again," he's thinking of 1984. These shirts are how you say MAGA without saying MAGA.
""Go for Goldwater"
I remember: "In your heart you know he's right." And: "AU H2O"
And: "None Dare Call It Treason."
"In your heart you know he's right."
Truer words....
"These shirts are how you say MAGA without saying MAGA."
True- like Let's Go Brandon was way to say "Fuck Joe Biden" which, of course, got some students in trouble anyway.
Remember the "Daisy" ad with the nuclear bomb about Goldwater, because, you know, he probably didn't want to get us bogged down in Viet Nam the way the other guy did, and I doubt he had anything to do with the JFK assassination.
It's always projection. You take what you know is your worst trait, your vulnerability, and you pin it to the other guy. It confuses the normies.
"Don't forget Herbert Hoover, folks."
We could use a guy like him again.
My husband has a Goldwater bumper sticker on his car.
All the youngsters know of Nixon is, "He's bad!" Most don't know squat about RR either.
I talk about these ancient history topics with out 34 YO son. And he's quite familiar. But he cautions me that most of his generation have a Comedy Central depth of knowledge.
My son has a Reagan-Bush '84 shirt and opinions to match, which he is not shy about sharing. He's a tall, handsome kid who has had numerous left-wing girlfriends. He tells me that not only do they overlook his politics but he thinks some of them secretly fetishize the transgressiveness of being with a devil-may-care right-wing man. Wasn't there a Sylvia Plath poem about "Every girl loves a Fascist"??
I was just wearing my "Bush Country" T-shirt that I got right after the 2000 recount. Similar to recent maps, this was the first of the "Forever Red" maps when the two-party color system broke down and we got stuck with commie red forevermore. Good times!
Nixon was, indeed the first big scalp of the deep state and media. I’ve always wondered why. The government he created has become the enemy of sane conservatives.
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