A rather pointed knock at Reagan or as I like to mockingly call him, Saint Reagan due to the sickening reverence the Republican Party has for him. The young man wearing this had no love for the former B-movie actor since he was quite aware of how Reagan devastated California’s university system during his tenure as governor. I found the phrase clever because of the hypocritical litany I endured in the Eighties about government being the problem not the solution. Never mind that New Deal programs employed Reagan’s brother and alcoholic father. Never mind that making WWII movies stateside provided more work for the hack thespian than he could get if he had to pound the pavement.
So it’s not funny in a neutral or absurd way. It’s funny in a partisan manner which is fitting since the recent coronation of Rush Limbaugh at CPAC and a 14-year-old has been child actor