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THERE’S NO MORE REAGANISM IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
Their most successful & beloved president has given way to a crazed tin-horn demagogue who prefers violence to democracy. Today’s GOP bears little resemblance to the party of Ronald Reagan.
December 12, 2023
Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States. (Courtesy Reagan Library.)
The Thanksgiving Day edition of the Tampa Bay Times contained an opinion piece about the evaporation of Reaganism from the Republican Party. A lot of us who didn’t support Ronald Reagan when he was in office have come to appreciate how much better he was than the violent lunatics currently in control of his old party. (The link to the TBT piece is at the end of this post.)
If anyone spots a Ronald Regan Republican, please let me know. When I was a young, liberal Democratic lawyer practicing in San Francisco in the 1980’s, I enjoyed many spirited and intellectual discussion-debates with my colleagues on the other side of the political aisle. One thing I noticed: even when I disagreed with them on civil rights law, freedom of choice, or economic policy, the discussions were always on the highest of intellectual levels and always…
