If Third Way Democrats continue to the right with TPP, union bashing, privatization it's because

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111. Reagan was a blacklisting, red baiting bigot. His director of communications was Pat Buchanan.

He raised taxes on smaller incomes, lowered rates on the rich and on corporations. He ignored the AIDS crisis for 7 years, while tens of thousands of Americans died and a global pandemic took root. He busted Unions, he used racist rhetoric, he was an arms trading drug dealing drug warrior.
There was nothing about Reagan nor any of his appointees nor policies that was liberal or moderate. He was a fiend. I understand the current drive to revise Reagan history but I reject it.
Here's David Corn's "66 Things to Think About When Flying Into Reagan National Airport"
"The firing of the air traffic controllers, winnable nuclear war, recallable nuclear missiles, trees that cause pollution, Elliott Abrams lying to Congress, ketchup as a vegetable, colluding with Guatemalan thugs, pardons for F.B.I. lawbreakers, voodoo economics, budget deficits, toasts to Ferdinand Marcos, public housing cutbacks, redbaiting the nuclear freeze movement, James Watt.
Getting cozy with Argentine fascist generals, tax credits for segregated schools, disinformation campaigns, "homeless by choice," Manuel Noriega, falling wages, the HUD scandal, air raids on Libya, "constructive engagement" with apartheid South Africa, United States Information Agency blacklists of liberal speakers, attacks on OSHA and workplace safety, the invasion of Grenada, assassination manuals, Nancy's astrologer.
Drug tests, lie detector tests, Fawn Hall, female appointees (8 percent), mining harbors, the S&L scandal, 239 dead U.S. troops in Beirut, Al Haig "in control," silence on AIDS, food-stamp reductions, Debategate, White House shredding, Jonas Savimbi, tax cuts for the rich, "mistakes were made."
http://www.thenation.com/article/66-things-think-about-when-flying-reagan-national-airport