Yeah, conservatives would never do that. Except for the time they elected a Hollywood loon to be President. And the Hollywood loon who represented the NRA for years. And the scores of other conservative Hollywood loons.
He was a Hollywood loon then left the Democrat party, well actually he said they left him. Imagine the Gipper's opinion today! The country did pretty good in his term, conservativism works every time it's tried.
what he did was war corporatism- taking borrowed taxpayer $$$ and giving it to defense contractors. thats a rock solid economy, said no one ever
As for "everytime its used", see Kansas