More revisionist history. Nothing of the kind happened - it was the leftists who became imboldened, and the country club GOP types who never liked RWR in the first place.
It wasn't a conservative who coined 'kinder & gentler America'
Remember, I was (and still am) a solid Reagan supporter, and I read the things said about him by conservatives in his second term............and fumed.
Accuracy is all I ask. I hope that's not too much for the Reagan-was-perfect-and-every-conservative-loved-him revisionists......