Today Republicans are celebrating a high holy day of their own, the 100th birthday of Saint Ronald the Immaculate. Conservatives come from far and wide to extol the virtues of the perfect president. However, I remember the Reagan years too well for this to make sense. Even though Reagan was an arch-conservative in his day, the political spectrum has shifted so far to the right, that today’s Republicans would consider him a liberal and hound him out of the Republican Party, as they have others that have shown the slightest inkling of moderation.

…ThinkProgress has compiled a list of the top 10 things conservatives rarely mention when talking about President Reagan: 1. Reagan was a serial tax raiser. .. 2. Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit… 3. Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. .. 4. Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. .. 5. Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to chose… 6. Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.”… 7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants… 8. Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran… 9. Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act… 10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden… Conservatives seem to be in such denial about the less flattering aspects of Reagan; it sometimes appears as if they genuinely don’t know the truth of his legacy… [emphasis original]

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I provided only a small part of the original article here. There is more before and after and a section documenting each of the numbered headings here. It’s worth the read.

I would disagree with the author on one point, number 9. I think today’s republicans would be in favor of Reagan’s veto.