I already accurately defined Reagan in Post #142 as a " committed conservative ideologue who used the vehicle of party politics to become the head of a nation and among other achievements defeated communism in Eastern Europe."
And then you go and move the goal post. No Reagan would NOT have been at all successful as a democrat, a fact he well understood which is why he left the party. Reagan knew to achieve what he wanted, establish himself as a leader and capture the presidency, he was going to have to do it as a member of the Republican party.
Nice attempt to save your theory though.
What theory?
That profound political change is not accomplished through partisan pursuits or that great leaders are charismatic ideologues, not partisans or that partisan pursuits are a residue of great change, not its motivation?
There is a simple political truth: No partisan system, regardless of efficiency, can withstand the onslaugth of a single, motivated, charismatic ideologue if that system has failed its citizens.
I shudder to think of the damage that narcissistic rogues like Schwarzenegger could do to our constitutional system if they had an ideology beyond their own reflection.