[CaptainK]

Reagan began his political career as a liberal Democrat. He joined numerous political committees with a strong left-wing orientation, such as the American Veterans Committee. He fought against Republican-sponsored right-to-work legislation and for Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, when she was defeated for the Senate by Richard Nixon

I don't know if Trump ever leaned his left.

[katana]

I did use the word “conversion”. Reagan’s battles with the Communists trying to take over the Screen Actors Guild, while he was president of that union, was his “Road to Damascus” epiphany. About thirty years of Pauline like proselytizing and service followed. If Trump is sincere, a word that until this year few would associate with the man, his is a recent conversion lacking in any proofs of its depth. Please understand that I can enjoy as much as you watching him kick the GOPe in the teeth. But it will take a lot more than that to persuade me to vote for him.