I’d like to add just one point about Reagan — a familiar one, but one worth remaking now and then. It is frequently cited that Reagan liked to talk about an “Eleventh Commandment”: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” It should be cited at least half as frequently that the guy did what is rarely done: challenge an incumbent president of his own party, for the presidential nomination. So . . .
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Jay Nordlinger was a senior editor of National Review and a book fellow at National Review Institute.
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