>> But those tax cuts coupled with plans for more better-not-use stuff smells both like Ragans self proclaimed mistake and Bush going into war without war footing in the the economy.
Sorry if I'm missing your point- but Reagan's biggest regret is reported to be that he trusted Congress to secure the border. Is that what you mean? And despite the fear-mongering, I'd say the chances of Trump starting a war would be NIL.
IMHO Trump/GOP's biggest exposure is what happens when the death spiral collapses the ACA and there's nothing ready to take its place.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
