This simply is historically false. It totally distorts what moderate has meant. As a former moderate Republican congressman told me in response to this claim, “John McCain was no more a moderate than I am a socialist.”https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1108917289737424898 …
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In his first Congress in the Senate, Reagan’s last two years in office, he was the 30th most moderate Republican out of 44th. If you want to say moderates disappeared by the 2010s, fine. But he was not an ideological moderate. He was a maverick.
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If by maverick you mean he was a moderate on a bunch of issues and conservative on some others, yes. He was a hardliner on national defense. He was for free trade, open immigration, nuclear power, lots of regulation, cutting pork but not big spending programs, skeptic of tax cuts
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