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Former Republican senator says Ronald Reagan wouldn’t identify with today’s GOP

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By Pat Cunningham

For many months now, I’ve been arguing that the Republican Party has moved so far to the right that Ronald Reagan couldn’t win a GOP primary election these days. And seemingly with each passing day, another prominent Republican expresses much the same opinion.

The latest of these is former GOP Sen. Chuck Hegel (above) of Nebraska, who SAYS “extremists” now hold sway in his party:

“Reagan wouldn’t identify with this party. There’s a streak of intolerance in the Republican Party today that scares people. Intolerance is a very dangerous thing in a society because it always leads to a tragic ending,” ...

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