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Republicans like to ask this question, "what would Reagan do?" lol haha
It is clear that Reagan's legacy binds the party's disparate factions together — the big business conservatives like Donald Trump, (although I am not very sure if this is a correct description of Trump) the social conservatives like former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, the anti-government conservatives like Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul. They all claim they are conservative like Reagan.
I like Reagan, but Eight years of "Reaganomics" later, the national debt had ballooned to $2.6 trillion — nearly three times the size that Reagan inherited from Jimmy Carter. In two terms, Reagan accumulated more debt than the previous seven presidents had racked up over nearly four decades.
Reagan raised taxes in exchange for spending cuts at least five times during his presidency, including when unemployment was creeping close to 11%.
I am not so sure if he could win today, but I still cannot find any presidential candidate who has an efficient policy to fix the economy. It would be a miracle if there is somebody who can fix that, to be fair.
No they wouldn't have. They wouldn't have had the support of the party, they were too moderate. Too willing to compromise and not take everything as a personal attack. They came from a time when politicians believed in compromise to achieve consensus. Neither party believes in those ideas anymore.
Would Ronald Reagan have won in today's electorate? Why or why not.
Nope. They'd be called RINO's because their views didn't rigidly adhere to the Talk Radio ideology that drives the GOP these days.
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