Perhaps there is someone else who can answer my Reagan question?
Reagan would have never pandered like this:
Reagan didn’t get the votes of ‘Reagan democrats’ by pandering to the left. They saw the validity of his arguments and voted for him.
My grandmother was a Roosevelt dem that had voted for Carter. She voted Reagan in ‘84. First Republican vote of her life, btw. She didn’t do it because he was promising ‘our handouts are just as good as the other guys handouts’. Which is what happened in the MS election.
Reagan went out of his way to deliberately target Conservative Democrats on the basis of Conservative ideals. Going after the blue collar, Catholic, union voters (later referred to as “Reagan Democrats”) is the historical analogy to what I and a number of are suggesting needs to be done with the Black community.