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Nicholas Goldberg: Liz Cheney’s principles were showing at the Reagan library. So were her politics

I’m not a Republican and I don’t get misty-eyed at the memory of the GOP’s glorious achievements. So when I first arrived at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Wednesday, the images of the 40th president — in cowboy garb or eyeball-to-eyeball with Gorbachev or loving up Nancy or putting a golf ball in the Oval Office — left me cold. Reagan, in my view, was a dangerous ...
Liz Cheney, a Wyoming Republican and the vice chair of the congressional committee investigating Jan. 6, speaks at the Reagan library on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, as part of its series on the future of the GOP in Simi Valley, California.

I’m not a Republican and I don’t get misty-eyed at the memory of the GOP’s glorious achievements.

So when I first arrived at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley on Wednesday, the images of the 40th president — in cowboy garb or eyeball-to-eyeball with Gorbachev or loving up Nancy or putting a golf ball in the Oval Office — left me cold.

Reagan, in my view, was a dangerous Cold Warrior and archconservative whose distrust of government led him to unravel programs that had brought relief to millions of Americans.

But it’s a sign of

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