Sort of like Reagan used to be Democrat and end up becoming a Republican?
Do you think Reagan was secretly trying to undermine conservatism by being a Republican all the years he was in office?
Reagan was a Democrat in a long distant history, the 1930s, and 1940s, Reagan was campaigning for Republicans by the 1950s.
Reagan was not an anti-Reagan Democrat supporting Carter, Mondale, and Al Gore and only becoming republican after Reagan was gone, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney did that, although Romney only became an independent, not a full blown, anti Reagan activist Democrat.
Reagan left the Democrats before the radical 1960s, Vietnam, Roe vs Wade, and Gay activism, feminism, abortion, affirmative action, anti-Americanism, Jimmy Carter, George McGovern, and of course, the Reagan Revolution.
Who were YOU supporting in 1984, were you still a Democrat, fighting against Reagan?