re: #287 Brian J.

It wasn’t just a cult of personality. Reagan didn’t just come out of nowhere with these ideas. He was at the head of a movement that had been cultivating that mindset for 20 years with increasing success at the state and local levels.

Yeah Reagan’s ascendation starts with the day Goldwater won the Republican nomination in 1964 or if you want to go back even further the grumblings during the Eisenhower years.