From what I can gather: Ronald Reagan, the hero of most conservatives today, was a liberal between 1932 and 1962 at the height of liberalism in America. He strongly supported FDR, arguably the most liberal President in American history, and the New Deal policies of the era, including Social Security. Reagan not only supported FDR, he admired the man too.
Here are the eleven Reagan principles.
• Freedom
• Faith
• Family
• Sanctity and Dignity of Human Life
• American Exceptionalism
• The Founders’ Wisdom and Vision
• Lower Taxes
• Limited Government
• Peace Through Strength
• Anti-Communism
• Belief in the Individual
so, you think the liberalism of 1960 is the same as the liberalism of 2016? well, I guess that helps explain the delusion that Trump is a conservative.
Does it suck not to understand history and how the US circa 1940 is absolutely nothing like it is today?
Not quite. True, Reagan was a self-described FDR "New Deal" Democrat through WW2 and much of the early 50's. But it was actually in the late 1950's that Reagan began his conversion to conservatism, even while he was still president of the Screen Actors Guild. It wasn't until 1962 that he changed his registration, but he had changed his philosophy long before that.
Reagan was NEVER a liberal. Democrat maybe. Not liberal.