Reagan was a serious politican. He had served two full terms as governor of one of the largest states in the union. He wasn’t some businessman who had suddenly decided to take a shot at the presidency.
Reagan started as a Democrat. He had been the head of an influential Union. He routinely hobbnobbed with some of the most liberal left-wing people on the planet.
If he was alive now and running for office, there’d be a stampede of FReepers ready to burn him at the stake!