I’m siding with Ronald Reagan on this one.
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals — if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is”
A quote often taken way out of context
No, you are disagreeing with Ronald Reagan, who was not a libertarian, but was a conservative, that quote was from a 1975 interview when as a candidate, Reagan was interviewed by a small libertarian magazine.
After the man with an economics degree opened with that audience connection (which was very sly when you read it in context), he then proceeded to inform the libertarians on how he disagreed with them on social issues and national defense, in other words we conservatives are the Reagan siders when we disagree with the libertarians.
Typical liberal tactic. Taking a Ronald Reagan quote out of context and twisting it to suggest Reagan was also a lib or that he had sympathies to libs.
Try posting ALL relevant aspects of that interview and you’ll see Reagan was NO libertarian.