Reagan took Goldwater's AnCap crankery and Ayn Rand's anti-Soviet polemics into the mainstream.
There's a reason Bush only made it one term and was forgotten shortly thereafter, but Reagan remains a Jesus-like figure in the concervative mythos.
Not that him dying would have necessarily prevented a... I don't know... Pat Buchanan Presidency. But these were not comparable politicians simply because they worked together.
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"Mr Vice President, the president has been shot"
GHB: "did we schedule that for this week?"
Pappy was a Rockefeller Republican.
Reagan took Goldwater's AnCap crankery and Ayn Rand's anti-Soviet polemics into the mainstream.
There's a reason Bush only made it one term and was forgotten shortly thereafter, but Reagan remains a Jesus-like figure in the concervative mythos.
Not that him dying would have necessarily prevented a... I don't know... Pat Buchanan Presidency. But these were not comparable politicians simply because they worked together.