Subject: Re: The Fight
Actually, the far left has lost power and the base of the Democratic Party has moved to the center.

Absolutely. I was a registered Republican right after I graduated high school. And for 20 years after that. Obviously, as I evolved, my views evolved. But I was always a bit of a centrist. The Party moved away from me far more than I moved away from it. By today's standards, Reagan would probably have to register as a Democrat (except perhaps for his courting the evangelicals). He opposed Russia at every opportunity (unlike the modern Republican Party), he believed in the social safety net, etc.** Trumpism is diametrically opposed to almost everything Reagan believed. Which, interestingly, is also the case of the alleged Jesus and modern evangelicals (i.e. they don't practice what he allegedly preached).




**I didn't realize at the time his "dog whistle" racism, though I've come to understand it later in life.