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Rhiannon12866

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3. They left "the party of Lincoln" behind long ago, not to mention the party of Ronald Reagan!

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Mon Jun 30, 2025, 10:25 PM

Jun 30

Reagan had a lot of issues we opposed, but he welcomed immigrants, was extremely tough on USSR's Gorbachev, and, along with the other living former presidents, Carter and Ford, supported the passage of President Clinton's 1994 Assault Weapons Ban. What would today's "Republicans" think of him now??

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They left "the party of Lincoln" behind long ago, not to mention the party of Ronald Reagan! Rhiannon12866 Jun 30 #3