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Originally Posted by spence
Reagan's real legacy wasn't his adherance to founding principals, it was his desire to seek the best deal he could...
-spence
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His getting the best deal he could was the only way to inch toward reversing the "trajectory" of the nation that was heading away from the founding principles. His belief in those principles was why he switched parties. His speeches dripped with those principles. He was not a "centrist" because he believed in centrism as an idealogy, rather, he used centrist methods to change course and head in a different direction. You would probably view his personal ideals as "extreme." When you speak of his "real" legacy, you are speaking of method, not purpose.
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