🧵The 2026 Reagan Institute Summer Survey is available now. Headed into the country's 250th anniversary, here is what Americans believe about the U.S. role in the world.
Full results at ReaganFoundation.org/SummerSurvey
Over the past year, President Trump has pursued four freedoms:
✅ Freedom from Iran's nuclear weapons program
✅ Freedom from the terrorist "ring of fire"
✅ Freedom from the missile threat
➡️ And now — freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz
Reagan Institute Director
Why should we be optimistic about AI? At the @RonaldReagan Foundation’s 2026 National Economic Forum, @MichaelRStrain shared how the technology might benefit people without a college degree.
Great to meet with @RogerZakheim, Director of the @ReaganInstitute, to discuss the annual Reagan National Defense Survey and the ongoing importance of Ronald Reagan’s doctrine of "peace through strength.”
At the Reagan Institute, we walk by this quote from President Reagan each day: "Above all, we must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
It's a reminder that freedom's greatest
“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
How young MAGA voters view America’s role in the world
From Ukraine to Iran to Taiwan, Trump supporters under 30 favor engagement over isolation.
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Are younger MAGA Republicans really isolationist?
We built an oversample of self-identified MAGA supporters under 30 into our latest Reagan Institute Summer Survey to find out.
💡The results: a 72% supermajority want America to lead on the world stage, not retreat from it.
In his latest @wapo column @marcthiessen writes how the @ReaganInstitute “decided to drill down on the foreign policy views of MAGA voters under 30. Well, the results are in — and the news is not good for the isolationist right. Young MAGA voters don’t want America to pull back
He refused to bring his church under government control. As punishment, the Chinese Communist Party imprisoned Pastor Ezra Jin along with dozens of other church leaders in one of China's largest crackdowns on a single religious network in decades.
As President Reagan reminds us:
The strongest argument for keeping America in NATO is not rhetoric—it is results.
The recent Reagan Institute Summer Survey shows a broad, resilient base of American support for the alliance: 73% of Americans say keeping the U.S. in NATO matters to our security and prosperity,