Conservative Mind, that is FALSE.
While Reagan, when asked about his biggest flaws/failures, answered that his main mistake was that he'd been a Democrat for so long, JUST THE SAME he was famous for maintaining for many, many long years: "I didn't leave the Democrat party, it left me." In other words, Reagan never claimed "a long, questionable period of liberal nuttiness prior to going 'straight'" -- he observed that the Democrat party left him by becoming, presumably, too liberally nutty.
ALSO, Reagan had been a Republican for 18 years by the time he ran for President, and he had apprenticed in politics and statesmanship via two terms as CA governor after leaving the acting field and becoming a politician.
Trump has served ZERO apprenticeship in any field relevant to the job he aspires to hold.
Trump has switched parties three times in the past 26 years -- this time around he has only been a Republican for six years, finding the GOP attractive enough to (re-)join in 2009 right when it LEFT most of us conservatives after nominating McCain (whom Trump supported while a Democrat) and then Romney (whom Trump supported as a newly-minted Republican).
ALL OF YOU TRUMP SUPPORTERS, you stand up and look that truth square in the eye, dammit!
Stop excusing it, stop denying it, stop avoiding it, and FACE IT boldly and honestly.
Here's how it is in REALVILLE: there is ZIP ZILCH NADA comparison between Trump and Reagan, even in spite of Trump's mythical version of his friendship with Reagan -- Trump supported Carter against Reagan in 1979. He didn't donate to Reagan until AFTER he had donated to Mondale in 1984.
Donald Trump is a bad risk and it's easy to see it.
Reagan lived in two of the most conservative counties in Illinois, which always voted Republican. He bucked that for the California dream as a liberal Democrat.
He got caught up in Hollywood glamor and married a lady he then divorced—not something Christians did in that time. Now, it's apparently a badge of honor to divorce your spouse before God.
You two are speaking nonsense without any basis for your opinions.
Enjoy your ignorance.