You may want to study how GOP governors (including Reagan and not excluding either Huckabee, nor Romney) tend to perform, when faced with largely Democrat state governments.
Remember, it is the states which have to run the bulk of those liberal programs that by law must be paid for.
A majority of the issues I mentioned, all but one, have been positions he's taken as of October/November/December. As for the tax issue, he's on video welcoming the tax increases. I'll leave it up to him to try and explain that.
President Bush governed under a democratic controlled Legislature, and I didn't see him raising taxes, supporting them, or welcoming them. Speaker Bullock was hardly a conservative.
Reagam closed the neighborhood distribution centers/mailouts for welfare checks and they at least had to spend their time and effort to get their checks.
They howled and complained that it wasn't convenient for them.