Actually, I think there is truth to what she said.
Let’s not trash Patti’s memory of her Dad. We might not agree with her politics, but she’s made peace with her father and her relationship with him.
Let’s give her that at least, can’t we?
RR’s intimates certainly mourned him for the person that he was, but she is saying that his politics had “nothing” to do with why the rest of America mourned his passing.
She is the one who is injecting her leftist point of view here, and she is clearly wrong.