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>I agree with you. He said in one of his inaugural speeches "Government isn't the solution. Government is the problem." (Full disclosure: I didn't look up the exact words.) In my view, that's been the underlying policy of the Republicans ever since and it's led to what we see in that party today.
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IMO, you are focusing far too much on the rhetoric and not enough on how much they actually did (or in this case, DIDN'T do) to reduce the size of the govt

It is really no different than Trump pandering to Americans about certain topics.

But I agree with Reagan's statement - yes, government many times "is" the problem.