Stop equating Reagan with neoconservatism

While they’ve never been successful in actually democratizing a foreign country, neoconservatives have had one major success: convincing the mainstream that Ronald Reagan agreed with them on foreign policy.

On Wednesday, POLITICO continued this myth by declaring that in choosing the “Ukraine skeptic” Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) as his running mate, Donald Trump was accelerating “his party’s rejection of its Reaganite roots…”

It is true that the neoconservative vision of foreign policy long endured since the Reagan era and had roots in his administration.

It is also true that so many Republican hawks actually hated Reagan for his most important foreign policy achievement and greatest legacy: diplomacy with Russia.

Read Jack’s entire column in The American Conservative