Fine. Reagan is idolized, while those who espouse the same policies are trashed as unfit to shine Reagan’s shoes.
Reagan espoused free trade principles and policies and it was his ideas that was the genesis of NAFTA.
BTW, most conservatives are Republican and most if not all conservatives in elected office in America are Republican.
The genesis of NAFTA is not to be compared with what it has grown to be, and I am quite certain that Reagan would *not* approve of current 'free trade' policy, NAFTA, or the NAU/SPP, which is the final fruit of NAFTA.
Reagan also offered broad amnesty, conditional upon the securing of our borders. That has also born bad fruit because of those who have bastardized it's intent.
No. It is most certainly *not* the same. Reagan was all about the exponential potential of the United States, but while operating within the traditional boundaries of the American moral sense, and within the American sense of fair play- Those two regulators are what made his positions so very successful, and are what is missing today..