re: #395 Salamantis

Moderates joined Reagan because he refused to try to push soconism on them.

At the same time, he convinced defense conservatives and fiscal conservatives that social conservatives deserved a place inside the Republican Party’s big tent.

Or do you think he meant the following only as an admonition to social conservatives?

“As to the other issues that draw on the deep springs of morality and emotion, let us decide that we can disagree among ourselves as Republicans and tolerate the disagreement.”