Let us examine Ronald Reagan a bit:
1.) He was a Democrat who changed over to the Republican Party. He once said: “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party, it left me!”
2.) As Governor of California, he raised the State income taxes.
3.) As President, he was a BIG spender, and added significantly to our National Debt. He once said: “Deficits don’t matter.” This quote was later repeated by another BIG spender, GWB.
4.) “The Big Tent” Republican Party idea grew under Reagan’s tenure, winning elections at the cost of causing the Ship of State to drift with the strongest PC wind of the Court of Public Opinion, from then to now.
5.) Reagan trusted the Democrats in Congress to do what they promised to do with alien illegal entry on our southern border.
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It is all well and good to carve out new ideas for past deeds, but let us be honest about the source of flaws that will doom our efforts to repeating the same mistakes that were made in the past. Reality knows no loyalty to anyone.
Reagan was one of our greatest Presidents, but we now have to correct the errors made by him and all the other Presidents. We cannot do that by being everything to everybody. We must clearly define our limited goals, and not be distracted.
BTW, it pains me to say it, but President Harry Truman said it best: “Those who cannot learn from the lessons of History are doomed to repeat them.”
People need to re-discover Calvin Coolidge and what resulted with true small government, massive reductions in govt and spending...to the tune of 80% cuts in government, taxes...etc...
What resulted? The roaring 20’s along with many major inventions that changed our country.
The man is not the focus, the idea is.
Our conservative coalition was formed under the guidance of Ronald Reagan, and became known as “Reagan conservatism” with those three factions coming together in recognition of the common goal to oppose socialism and its infringement of our rights.