Reply #48: You forget

[psychopomp]

"But compared to the slime running the country now, compared to the far-right fascists and theocrats that infest the GOP today, Reagan was a good man and a true patriot."

Many of the Neocons that have power today got their start working under Raygun. Somebody else can come up with a complete list, but it's as if these guys had just been "frozen in amber" waiting for their time to come again.

And "true patriots" don't willfully neglect the least among their fellow citizens, which Raygun did with a vengence.