“He was a liberal Democrat for most of his life and elected president of a major union eight separate times.”
You conveniently left out that that was decades in the past by the time he ran for President, and he was a leader of the conservative movement during that interim you conveniently neglected to mention.
Are you sure a fiscal conservative president would allow federal spending to TRIPLE without issuing vetoes?
Reagan, like Trump, had a long, questionable period of liberal nuttiness prior to going “straight.”