Reagan Was a Libertarian

Anti-populists impued anyone who doesn't worship trade agreements and tariff free commerce as a protectionist isolationist or nativist. Reagan wasn't picking winners and losers woolly-nilly in the marketplace he was giving American industries a fighting chance to compete against nations who rigged the rules in their favor personally I've never found libertarianism to be an interesting worldview politics take place in the real world with real people not in the dusty pages of an iron-ran novel. Henry Kissinger once told president Richard Nixon that even though Reagan was a pretty decent guy his brains are negligible Clark Clifford advisor to four democratic presidents infamously labeled Reagan and amiable dunce history.