To My GOP Friends: I Remember 1980, Do You?

I know what it’s like to have your world turned upside-down; soon you will, too.

Reagan and Carter debate in 1980 was famous for Reagan’s line, “well, there you go again” to deflect Carter’s (correct) claim that he sought to cut or even eliminate Social Security and Medicare.

In 1980 I was simply amazed when Ronald Reagan, whom I and all my Leftie friends considered to be an absolute joke, somehow won the Republican nomination for President. I thought: the GOP is imploding and this is just another Goldwater who will lose by a…