FWIW, I remember back in the 1970s, when I was in YAF, conservatives were still attacking FDR and his New Deal.
“”””FWIW, I remember back in the 1970s, when I was in YAF, conservatives were still attacking FDR and his New Deal.””””
Yes, and by then they could talk to successful 2 term GOP Governor Reagan as he was starting his second attempt for the GOP Presidential nomination and ask him about how he had abandoned that party as a still fairly young man in his 30s as a Hollywood figure a quarter century before you were having those conversations.