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"'Reagan-era Republicanism is [unwelcome] in today's GOP. '"

I wrote in this website during the Obama Administration that Pres. Reagan would be a RINO in the GOP back then. More so now. As Newt Gingrich once said, "Pres. Reagan talks like a conservatives but governs as a moderate." I'm pretty sure that's a direct quote.

How many remember that Pres. Reagan cut-and-ran from Beirut when the going got rough, raised taxes more than once, granted amnesty to illegal immigrants, breaking a campaign pledge he never once proposed a balanced budget and tripled the national debt (breaking a campaign pledge?

It's interesting how so many conservatives twist themselves like a pretzel to justify these policies as

consistent with conservatism.

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