All that “objective evidence” was there with Ronald Reagan. He was a liberal Democrat for most of his life and elected president of a major union eight separate times.
Ronald was a definite “bad apple,” too.
Wrong. Well, wrong-ish. He was a longtime democrat. But he had his epiphany years before he ran for office and spent the interim speaking and educating and beautifully ARTICULATING the who, how, why of conservative ideology. He built his conservative bona fides over years and by living an honorable life.
“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.