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.
Whether or not someone idolizes Reagan is a great test to see if he is just repeating talking points or has actually thought about what is going on.
Rush Limbaugh idolized Reagan to the point of calling him Ronaldus Magnus.