Eugene Robinson: Ronald Reagan Would Be Considered a ‘RINO, a Squish, or Something’ in Today’s GOP

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ROBINSON: "Well, Joe, apparently, according to today’s Republican Party, creed over blood was then and this is now, right? Because that’s not today’s Republican Party. It’s not Donald Trump’s Republican Party. You know, Molly said a few minutes ago that Ronald Reagan was Republicans’ favorite president and, for once, I’m going to disagree with Molly. I think he is not right now. I don’t think Ronald Reagan would be considered a Republican today. I think he’d be considered a RINO, a squish or something, you know, a socialist, who knows, but he certainly wouldn’t fit into Donald Trump’s Republican Party. It’s just emblematic of how one of our two major political parties has completely been transformed into a kind of mutant version of itself. Heaven knows how it gets back to being a center-right conservative party that also believes in the America that you and I believe in. I don’t know how we get back to that, but that’s not where the Republican Party is now. It’s certainly not with Ronald Reagan."