I'll take the word of someone who actually KNEW Reagan personally, WORKED his campaigns in 1975-76 and 79-80 and worked in his White House who said the exact same thing I posted above (almost word-for-word) that you declared to be 'nonsensical'.
You're pathetic and an embarrassment to your nominee.
As to 'unsupported opinion' - that's the catch-phrase I'm noticing you Trump Propagandists are now using to redefine Conservatism into Trump's Liberal Leftist Nationalist Populism.
Trump is no Reagan. Trump has nothing in common with Reagan.
Trump has more in common with Hillary and the Ruling Class Oligarchy in DC that he has been funding and supporting for decades.
First, like Reagan, Trump is also being clear that the Dem party has blown itself to the extreme left. He's also clear that parts of the GOP had gone either extreme right, or simply fell into the country club mentality of just trying to get along. He's been ahead of the curve at every step, much like Reagan. Further, when making political analogies one does not simply proclaim a whole human being to be identical to another...that would be inaccurate and juvenile. What the author does, and what is a rational comparison, is examining just how both men were viewed by the establishments of their own party and by their rivals from the opposing party. Further, both men were capable of reaching past a hostile media and using that media...unwillingly...to convey their message directly to the American people.
Like Reagan, Trump believes in big tent Republicanism...both men openly acknowledging the need to draw in blue collar democrats and independents to their cause. They both see/saw that the narrowminded approach of the Religious right to exclude potential supporters and candidates from the party because they fail the "purity" test is how you shrink and end a party. Its moralizing madness, and a man like Reagan would have seen Ted Cruz for the narrow minded, uncharismatic, self-centered moralist that he is...Reagan was a man of optimism, like Trump, and would not have condoned Cruz's approach to pushing people FROM the party rather than coaxing them into it.
Reagan is no Trump and Trump is no Reagan. Obviously. But both men have overcome the establishments of their own parties, and have taken that establishment and put it to work in a greater cause of growing the GOP and moving forward conservative causes like Immigration enforcement, smaller government, tax cuts for the middle class, a strong defense, a strong foreign policy built on strength and the avoidance of small pointless entanglements. Both men believe in appointing originalist SCJ's and want to make government better at the fewer things it must do. And both men were backed by the NRA as strong supporters of Gun Rights and the 2nd amendment. The similarities are almost uncanny, though the demeanor and backgrounds are in many ways very different. Both these commonalities AND differences are worthy of note.
