A simple question. Did they always have some vested interests in working together yet appear as red vs blue or were they separate then slowly coalesse over the years into becoming a unified deep state?
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The last proper republican was Herbert Hoover. The party lost its spine in the following decades.
You have to understand one thing: Eisenhower was not a Republican. He was Eisenhower. Now, he did believe old guard Republican things (ie, he wasn't a racist democrat) but economically he was a New Dealer.
Nixon was probably the smartest of the Cold War presidents when it came to foreign affairs, but he should have handled inflation by keeping the dollar peg. He knew NOTHING about economics and trusted the wrong people.
By the time you get to Reagan, the party has already been transformed. Reagan was just a tough talking sock puppet.
Donald Trump, republican, was a 90s democrat.
Ronald Reagan, republican, was a 50s democrat.
It's tiresome to realize people have been propping up false republican saviors longer than I've been alive. And I don't even hate Trump.
Not to mention Reagan was complicit in something nefarious, given that CIA Director Bush was his VP.
Trump and Reagan really are the perfect examples of how todays Republicans are yesterdays Democrats.