President Reagan signed a bill while governor making abortion legal in the state of California. Also, taxes were raised while he was in office...he was pragmatic and did much good...in order to do this he had to get elected.
Yeah, those two points have been the official meme of the left flank of the republican party for a while. “Reagan legalized abortion! Reagan raised taxes! We should embrace abortion and high taxes, too!”. That’s pretty much the Wide Awakes rallying cry.
We’ve dealt with this extensively. There was a board purge over this continuing distortion of Reagan’s record. I’m not interested in revisiting these sort of disingenuous, borderline slanderous arguments. You think the party should move left to win over leftists, I got it. I think your strategy will turn us into Austrian-style two-party, one-party system... I think it already has to some extent.