Reagan was a Democrat and the president of a union until his grade B movies began to make some serious dollars. Then he converted to Republicanism with one goal....reduce taxes for the wealthy. He cut taxes by trillions with the wealthiest gaining the most, began borrowing from foreign banks and he and Bush's daddy quadrupled the national debt.
I might also point out that he signed an amnesty bill in 1986 which ultimately granted amnesty to about six million illegals even though the original bill was only supposed to accomodate 2.5 million. Anybody who calls reagan a conservative has their head up their ass so far that they will never see daylight again. In my day the idea of a Republican supporting deficits was so ridiculous that one would have been laughed out of town for even saying such a thing.
That's why I'm no longer a Republican....they have abandoned the original idea and run up a debt so massive that now just the interest on it would fund the defense budgets of the other ten biggest governments in the world.
The democrats forcing Reagan to agree to that amnesty and now lying about it, only proves that democrats can be trusted in nothing.