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By whom in particular?

Nobody thought of him as a Reagan type, to be sure. His sympathies lie with European political Catholicism more than with the US Constitution, and he’s quite the Beltway insider.

Back when he worked for Nizon, he was in charge of crafting a strategy that would make his employer attractive to Democrats. He needed his sister’s influence to join Reagan’s camp too.

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The issues then were NAFTA, the tax increase, immigration, maybe affirmative action. On those issues, Buchanan was to the right of Bush.

Nobody thought of him as a Reagan type, to be sure.

The idea of "a Reagan type" is hard to pin down. A lot of people who claim to be Reagan types aren't really that.

Some new fissure always opens up and whoever is on the other side of it becomes a RINO. I'm not even sure Ronald Reagan himself would pass muster as a Reagan type today.

Back in 1992, there were plenty of people who thought they were continuing in Reagan's footsteps by following Buchanan -- or at least in voting for whoever was running against Bush.

I didn't vote for Buchanan, but like a lot of people I was tempted.