Ronald Reagan: the turning point?

Ronald Reagan, inauguration parade 1981. By White House Photographic Office — National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 198507, courtesy SDSC/UMD/NARA Prototype Persistent Archive:Source URL: http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/getfile.pl?file=/nara-umiacs/home/images.umiacs/nara-worm/batch8/MA-0119B/MA-0119B,12-0103M.TIFSource page: http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewobject.pl?object=18565, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=257965. Donald Trump speaking to the CPAC conference in 2011. By Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America — Donald Trump, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46772937

Trump is the culmination of the Reagan revolution

It’s quite the rage right now for liberals to look back fondly on the two Bush and the Reagan Presidencies. The line goes something like “Reagan would be outraged over Trump’s latest behavior.” This narrative has been fueled, in part, by George W. Bush’s full-throated disdain of our current President.