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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vantexan" data-source="post: 3154940" data-attributes="member: 24302"><p>He also revved up the economy, put pride back into institutions like the military, stood up to the Soviet Union and won.  The reasons you cite might be why there was a substantial voting block called Reagan Democrats.  What you don't seem to get is that starting with Clinton Democrats became more and more Leftists.  Pushing for more and more social engineering that became alarming to conservatives.  Thus polarizing the country into what we're seeing today.  Reagan's era was a time when he could work across the aisle with Tip O'Neill.  Reagan may not be what you would characterize as a typical Republican today, but he was great.  And O'Neill wasn't what you'd consider today's typical Democrat.  They still had Blue Dog Democrats then.</p></blockquote><p></p>