The Party of Reagan ...

How did conservatism go from where it was in the 80's with The Party of Reagan to where it is today?

I can't really call myself a true conservative, but I am definitely conservative-friendly. Every online political survey I've ever taken has labeled me somewhere right of center to varying degrees, but I find less and less alignment with our national conservative leaders.

I just read an opinion piece by conservative political commentator, Adam Kinzinger, on Why Republicans are turning against aid to Ukraine. Mr Kinzinger is a USAF veteran of Iraq & Afghanistan and was also a Republican member of Congress from 2011 through January of this year. In his piece he says:

Gone is the party of Reagan, which was steadfast in its stand against tyranny. In its place is rising a GOP that seems immune to the world’s need for American leadership and uninterested in the suffering of a country we should aid until the fight is over.

Obviously, Mr Kinzinger in his essay and I in my post here are talking about Ukraine and Russia. One is led by an authoritarian tyrant who invaded the other, a fledgling democracy trying to shed the systems and institutions put upon it after decades of Soviet rule.

The Party of Reagan would not have taken a nanosecond to decide who to support in this conflict. Sure, they would've approached Ukraine about cleaning up some things (which they are doing), but none of that would have deterred The Party of Reagan from supporting Ukraine to the successful end of this conflict.

So, to my conservative friends ... Help me understand the thinking here? And in your explanations, please avoid the words Trump and/or Biden. Both of them are short-term blips in the history of this great country and in the development of western civilization & democracy.

PDXNative1986 · 36-40, MVIP

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I honestly despise reagan and everything about him and thatcher to boot. Dude gets way too much credit for not doing much of anything like everyones like WE ADORE HIM HE CUT TAXES and it's like who's taxes precisely? those who least needed a tax cut in the first place? First of all he tried but then went too far and ended up having to reversse course and by the time it was all over with all that really changed was the tax burden shifted from those with the deepest pockets to those least able to actually paay for anything and while they didn't literally legalize povertiy the system punished you even more just for being low income after reagan was done with this place and plus of the good times Give me 3 Trillion on credit i'll Show this country a good time, but leave them with the bills just like he did. all reagan really did was shift the tax burden, he certainly didn't downsize government or curb spending at all, he simply changed who hhad to pay for it all.\

Governemnt isn't the problem, people who think it is the problem, are the problem.