[Responsibility2nd]

There’s always one. In every thread about liberals, there’s always one who takes those Regan remarks out of context.

Read the entire article. Reagan was no libertarian. And he did not endorse libertarianism.

[Carlucci]

Here's the entire paragraph :

"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."

Pretty hard to take that out of context.

[Skepolitic]

What about this very direct statement by Reagan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg0Axyvlkm0

Here Reagan says quite explicitly that his political philosophy is libertarian.

Ronald Reagan was not a fascist conservative; he was by his own profession a libertarian conservative. One of his closest economic advisors, by the way, was Milton Friedman, who was also a self-described libertarian.

To argue otherwise is just delusional.