Reagan was a Dem9crat, but not a liberal. He had 25 years of consistent conservative activism before becoming president. It’s nothing like Trump.
Reagan speaks in favor of Truman and HumphreyYou can hardly believe your ears if you listen to that, Endorsing Truman, yeah - but Hubert Humphrey! And inveighing against the Taft-Hartley Act. You listen to it, you know that the speaker is Ronald Reagan (albeit a young Ronald Reagan). And you know that the speaker is liberal. Reagan really changed between 1948 and when he started supporting Republicans.And that is only to be expected of a conversion from “liberal” to “conservative” (each label is in its own way deceptive) - you expect such a person to have a lot to say about what is wrong about his prior position. And I don’t see that in Trump.
The issue, tho, is whether we can spare the man - given that he fights, and is to some extent more able to fight than any other candidate. Ted Cruz or Scott Walker apparently are better - tho none is as staunch on immigration law enforcement as Trump - but to the extent that is so, does it matter if in the end they look like Romney in his last debate?