And Trump, a former democrat.
And me, a former democrat.
“If you’re a Republican at 20 years old, you don’t have a heart. If you’re a Democrat at 30 years old, you don’t have a head.”
It makes a difference when someone left the democrats, leaving in the 1940s or 1950s like Reagan did as he was campaigning against Adlai Stevenson in 1952 is someone who was born a conservative and would never have supported the post-1968 Democratic party.
I was a Democrat when JFK ran. I was 10 and was really more of a Kennedy fan. By the time Bobby was shot, I’d grown into a Republican. What was then left of the Kennedy reputation was finished off by Ted. Emperor Claudius said the Claudian family tree bore two kinds of fruit; very sweet and very bitter. So it was with the Kennedy family.