[katana]

Yes, but he was a rock solid conservative and Republican (the two are not, as we know, synonymous) and a had become a successful and experienced political executive during the thirty years following his conversion and before becoming president. That's why comparisons between Ronald Reagan being a Democrat during the Roosevelt administration and Trump becoming one after a record of changing party affiliation about as often as he changes trophy wives is to many of us ludicrous. In short, you're entitled to your faith in Grump but I do not trust him.

[katana]

Should be becoming a Conservative and Republican

[CaptainK]

Reagan began his political career as a liberal Democrat. He joined numerous political committees with a strong left-wing orientation, such as the American Veterans Committee. He fought against Republican-sponsored right-to-work legislation and for Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, when she was defeated for the Senate by Richard Nixon

I don't know if Trump ever leaned his left.