For many anti-Trump conservatives, the lodestar remains Ronald Reagan... Their slogans differed dramatically: Reagan's 'Tear down this wall' versus Trump's 'Build the wall'; Reagan's 'It's morning again in America' versus Trump's 'American carnage.' Both men survived an assassination attempt, and their instinctive responses were telling. Reagan, though gravely wounded, reassured those around him with genial humor.
Trump's election shook Boot's world view. Was this what Republicanism was about? Had Boot been deluded the whole time? He wrote a book, 'The Corrosion of Conservatism,' about his breakup with the G.O.P.
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