anybody know what Reagan supported before he became rep?
i guess that would be hard to find.
dems have been liberal for a long time.
Seems like he saw the light some time in the ‘60s, i would guess, without looking.
Reagan assisted with identifying communist influence in Hollywood in the early 1950s. He was a dem, but no liberal.
Reagan formally changed his party ID in 1962 and endorsed Goldwater in ‘64.
Reagan was raised in a Dem family like I was and I saw the light because of Reagan. So folks can cast me like they do Trump but I don’t care because I know who I am:-)
The Tuscaloosa News - Apr 25, 1965
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5w8dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A5sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7250%2C3634820
bottom of 3rd column
“Reagan, although then a registered Democrat, campaigned vigorously for Richard M. Nixon’s presidential bid against John F. Kennedy.”
Didn’t he sign some sort of abortion bill in CA as governor even before Roe v Wade? But ended up a great president when he matured in values. But there are many here who think no one can change.
I think Reagan saw the light when fought so hard in Hollywood against the Communists. At least that was probably the beginnings of it because that was really when liberals started showing their hand.
The Tuscaloosa News - Apr 25, 1965
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5w8dAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A5sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7250%2C3634820
middle of 3rd column
“In the latest presidential campaign Reagan was cochairman for Goldwater-Miller Committee—and a fiery, persuasive speaker.
A nationally televised Reagan campaign speech brought in more than $150,000 in small donations—more than was raised by any other speaker or rally, says Walter Knott, chairman of the Goldwater-Miller National TV Committee.”
“Reagan, who didn’t register as a Republican until two years ago, is a self-styled former “bleeding-heart liberal”. But he voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956—”didn’t everyone?”— and says he has been making speech’s on limitation of government since 1954.”
Palin also had an easy decision endorsing McCain.
So Reagan was a movement Conservative for a full twenty years and had eight years of government executive experience before running for president. It's also worth mentioning that Reagan was the epitome of a happy warrior, never called any opponent names, and campaigned on the basis of ideas, not fantasies of Mexico paying for a border wall or a single payer health system. Sarah's entitled to her opinion and choice. And since she has had personal contact with Trump for at least the past couple years it's possible she is right about the man's sincerity. But her faith doesn't persuade me to change my opinion.
Reagan switched to the Republican Party in 1962. As noted elsewhere, he was never a liberal, but saw as early as 1962 that the Democratic Party was becoming more and more liberal. It was in 1962 that he proclaimed, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.”
I guess the real point is that Reagan never espoused contemporary liberal ideals and that he had been a Republican for almost 18 years when he ran for president.
Reagan supported Truman in 1948 when he was President of the Screen Actors Guild and Truman was the pro-union guy. (Most Hollywood people either supported Republican Thomas Dewey or pro-Communist Henry Wallace.) That was the last Democrat he backed. He supported Eisenhower in 1952 and 1956 and Nixon in 1960. Robert Kennedy then got him fired as GE spokesman by promising GE huge government contracts.
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Reagan was a conservative patriot all of his life.
Find one single thing he wrote that wasn’t!
Trump supported single payer health system, paid for by the taxpayer in September 2015.
This is his CURRENT position.
Ronaldus Magnus was a New Deal Democrat back in the 30's and during the War. His reeducation began after he met Nancy, who began to point out the rot in the Democratic Party and the numbers of unabashed Reds running around the national administration under FDR and Harry Truman (Joe McCarthy was right about the 250+ Communist Party [COMINTERN] and KGB spies in the Truman Administration: He had Venona material but couldn't reveal the source as it was still above Top Secret).
Reagan began to pay serious attention to the damage being done to society and the Constitution by Fabians and Communists. He drew away from the Democrats and began to align with "Main Street" (Taft) Republicans and eventually to support Barry Goldwater.
Examining the timeline of Reagan’s shift to conservativism is pointless because information was not as easy to access then as it is now.
The impact of more videos also speeds up peoples’ understanding and hardens their new convictions very quickly.
It was inevitable that a reformed democrat would suddenly shift into an angry, fiesty ‘reformed smoker’ anti-leftist at a rapid pace. That freshnessness of new ways of thinking is also infectious — brings vigor back to the political arena.