yep, somehow I doubt we would see such a reaction today, from Hollywood idiots, if a Republican president had survived.
You’re exactly right.
Probably the last president to win New York, Texas, California, Oklahoma, Hawaii, Idaho, Vermont, Alabama, Massachusetts, and so on down the line, 49 states.
I think we should remind people of that more often when Reagan is mentioned in a negative way as being too conservative or dividing, or whatever the modern media generated history.
Ronald Reagan had considerable affection from Hollywood’s actors because he was a successful Screen Actor’s Guild President who had won the concession of residual rights from Hollywood’s notoriously tight-fisted producers. I recall a gossip reporter describing an unnamed faded screen and TV idol who was a queer and a leftist Democrat who explained his unexpected great regard for Reagan by showing off a fat residual check.
I remember hearing a story of a woman, a teacher, who lost her lob because she said something approving of the assassination attempt.
Forty years later her kind of crude leftwing ideology has taken over not only the entire education establishment but the news media, Hollywood, federal law enforcement, every public bureaucracy, and half the population.
Yep, totally different generation of Hollywood.