Patti Davis, daughter of former President Ronald Reagan, said he doesn’t think her father would be embraced by today’s Republican Party ― and that the feeling would be mutual.
“I don’t think he would… and I don’t see how he would want to be in it,” she told CNN’s Jim Acosta on Sunday. “It’s so diametrically opposed to what he believed and to the dignity that he felt that people in government should have.”
She mentioned Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) trying to get into a physical fight with labor union leader Sean O’Brien in the middle of a Senate committee hearing last year.
“My father would be appalled at this,” she said. “This is not a bar. This is in the Senate chambers.”
She added that she believed her father would be saddened by the state of the nation as a whole.
“I think that he would be heartbroken and horrified about where America is and how mired we are in anger, in violence, in disrespect for one another,” she said. “I think he would heartbroken, and I think he would be scared.”
Davis was estranged from her father for a number of years, including during his presidency when she protested some of his policies. She painted an unflattering portrait of both her father and mother, Nancy Reagan, in a 1992 autobiography.
They reconnected before the former president’s death from Alzheimer’s disease in 2003, and she has a new book about her parents called “Dear Mom and Dad.”
See her full interview with Acosta below:
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Learned a long time ago that Patti’s opinions and her dad’s were seldom in agreement! Don’t put much stock in her ramblings.
I tend to agree. Reagan was a conservative, but not an a–hole and not an isolationist. Those were the days when Reagan and fellow irishman Tip O’Neil used to disagreed on most everything BUT compromise for the sake of the country….basically , the gentlemen elite running the government the way it made sense. Those were the days I registered as a Republican
Now the Republicans are fear mongering populists , catering to the darker angels of racism, xenophobia and the ignorance of the uneducated classes…..Our Founders were afraid of this and that is why they originally kept the vote for the landowning elite who normally attained a certain level of education and therefore less sensitive to hucksters and con-men like Trump, Cruz, Scott, DeSantis and wheels (the nasty cripple from Texas)….
Back then the left wasn’t trying to change every good thing in the country and calling anyone who disagrees with them moral degenerates. They only agree with diversity if everyone is just like them. And they only agree with freedom of speech if everyone is saying what they want them to say.
But now we only have Democ🐀bastards at best being demented anti America 🇺🇸 values fascists