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Neocons have been a plague on the Republican Party since Democrats threw them out of their coalition. That's the electoral and political history. Despite riding his coattails, most modern day neocons were NOT supporters of Ronald Reagan. They pretend to be standard-bearers now, but at the time made fun of him and the conservative platform for which he stood. The Gipper was no neocon. But he was a coalition builder and, by allowing them to serve in his administration, he allowed them to eventually co-opt his brand, and later they would destroy it. In his viral interview with neocon pretender George Will, Bill O'Reilly not only did an excellent job exposing that, but told the audience about the real history, to George's FACE. It was epic and I included it below. As O'Reilly also pointed out, which was the reason for the fight in that interview, they conspired behind Reagan's back and discussed the potential to invoke the 25th Amendment. Neocons almost got a diminished Reagan impeached over Iran Contra—and would have, if not for Reagan's popularity—and then destroyed his successor's presidency even though he showed remarkable restraint against them in the Gulf War. H.W. Bush's focus on foreign policy abroad that needed to be funded with broken promises at home, resulted in a 20% fracture of the coalition that lost to Bill Clinton, and didn't come back for nearly decade until his son G.W. Bush ran as a non-interventionist nationalist in 2000. He ran on "compassionate conservatism" and against the folly of neoconservatism in his party. Unfortunately, despite trying to balance the neocons in his Pentagon and administration with Colin Powell at the State Department, the only figure in the administration who was well-liked, the neocons got their longtime wish to invade Iraq after 911. They promised the U.S. would be seen as liberators in a short war that would not resemble Vietnam, but the neocon venture went completely off the rails and resulted in the most unpopular war since Vietnam. Completely consumed by neocon foreign policy and an unpopular, unsuccessful and illegal war, the administration exhausted its political capital. That capital was spent on tax cuts for the rich, and illegal wars for neocons. You, got shit. By the time everyone realized there was a domestic economic crisis on the horizon, all that political capital was spent on the neocon agenda. The party was electorally DECIMATED (again) and would not be a national political force until Donald Trump and America First came along and resurrected it like Jesus Christ resurrected Lazarus. They hated him, and America First, like they hated Reagan and his ideology. Failing to defeat it, they have now shifted to co-opting it as they did to Reagan's Nationalist Conservatism. This fracture, however, will make the Ross Perot fracture look like a fucking paper cut.

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