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.
I listened to Trump in 2011 on Michael Savage’s show and that’s when he first caught my attention. I truly thought he was going to run then. That’s why this “conversion” doesn’t ring hollow to me.