yes, that would have been taken the wrong way and rightly so.
What did Reagan do except tear down the moderate Republican party?
and install a bunch of freaks instead?
Presumably the "Democratic Reagan" I mentioned would not be advancing conservative ideals. It is merely unfortunate that the Republican agenda is almost entirely destructive. But Reagan remade the Republican brand into something that lasted for a full generation. You do not want that?
the republican brand was re-branded by Reagan. Ask republicans (moderates) if they liked what happened to their party.
I don't want the democratic party to be re-branded. And the democratic party has been around a lot longer than the republican party and for more than one generation at that.