“As I remember it, it wasn’t so much pro-Reagan as anti-Carter.
Remember that Anderson got 6% plus.
The horrible economy and weak foreign policy united people against ole Jimmuh.
The joke is that the economy in 2012 under Caliph Baraq was measurably worse, but the MSM (and the Federal Reserve) saved the day for him.”
That may have been true in 1980. But 1984 was all Reagan.
I really think it’s going to remain as it is. I hate that it seems that way but in a lot of ways we conservatives are our own worst enemy. As a group we tend to turn our guns on ourselves.
I also think the GOPe is glad that Ted Cruz has called them all out. I expect there to be a purging of Tea Party Repubs by the establishment. That’s why we’re seeing the pile on.
Ted Cruz should finish his term in the senate and then run for Governor of Texas. Spend the next decade putting together a really strong and deep base of conservative voters and then go after the WH.
Reagan was the anti-establishment candidate but he’d had decades to build his coalition and his creds.
Cruz could do worse than using Reagan as a “go by”.
I hope you’re correct.
I see the demographic trend as overwhelming us.
Every year 2.5 million (mostly white, majority R voting) people die off and are replaced by (mostly minority, heavily D voting) people.