Mr. Bartlett is incorrect. He is a Republican. A 21st Century RINO!! I have not been Republican since President Reagan. I greatly miss that Great American.
Bartlett is actually slowly converting to being a Democrat.
In 2006, he published Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy (ISBN 0-385-51827-7), which is critical of the Bush Administration’s economic policies as departing from traditional conservative principles. He compared the second Bush to Richard M. Nixon as “two superficially conservative presidents who enacted liberal programs to buy votes for reelection.”
In Bartlett’s latest book, The New American Economy:The Failure of Reaganomics and a New Way Forward (ISBN 978-0-230-61587-8), he goes back to the economic roots of his other book about George W. Bush entitled -— Impostor — and abandons the conservative dogma in favor of a policy strongly based on what he calls -— what’s worked in the past.
Bartlett explains what went wrong with Reaganomics and what the Obama Administration is doing to fix it.
This sounds like a move towards being a Democrat to me.