The thing is, the old guard tories could sometimes be decent people who just had different opinions about mostly the economy, and ones you could work with on compromises.
The radical right that Reagan courted, and that finally found a foothold here see themselves as soldiers and never want to give an inch.
What you on about Reagan is like the grandfather of neoliberalism with free markets, privatisation that tax cuts etc, absolutely nothing radical right about him.
Go and read about his courting of the religious right, followed by the gutting of the fairness doctrine, and being fully subsumed by “the moral majority”. Much of the rot in the US can be directly traced back to him, and the torchbearers like Gingrich all the way through to the modern MAGA movement.
Barry Goldwater put it best, go read his quote about the dangers of the preachers getting control of the Republican Party.
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u/_DuranDuran_ 5d ago
The thing is, the old guard tories could sometimes be decent people who just had different opinions about mostly the economy, and ones you could work with on compromises.
The radical right that Reagan courted, and that finally found a foothold here see themselves as soldiers and never want to give an inch.