As you state, I can concur. I’ve read that Reagan was forced by the Deep State to accept GHWBush, who had called RR’s plan voodoo economics. Soon after coming to power in 1981, they got this MKUltra nut trying to impress Jodi Foster to assassinate him. From then on he was forced to play ball with the DS. Why did he sign an amnesty bill for illegals without any Dem reciprocity aside from promises? Why did he arm Afghan “freedom fighters” who were really fundamentalist Islamist terrorists? He allowed a Marine Barracks to be destroyed by jihadists, and never struck back, giving us the “paper tiger” image. Our enemy was Iran, but he gave them arms to free hostages and double crossed Saddam, the other power in the region. For a staunch conservative, not much was conserved when his presidency ended.