Is Trump More Reagan Than Reagan?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : From Barry Goldwater in 1964, to Ronald Reagan in 1980, through the congressional Republican Revolution of 1994, the Tea Party movement of 2010, and to this day: Most Republicans throughout the modern era have presented their party as the one of fiscal conservatism and smaller government.
42% : But by the end of his second term, federal spending went up more under Reagan than it would later under President Barack Obama.
40% : Since Trump was first elected in 2016, various people on the right warned about the pitfalls of Zombie Reaganism, in which the conservative movement would continue to bog itself down, supposedly, in the tired old playbook of free markets, small government, and fiscal responsibility.
36% : " In the first month of President Donald Trump's second term, his Department of Government Efficiency led by Elon Musk has been finding, cutting and canceling wasteful spending and fraud in the federal government at breakneck speed.
33% : Any way you slice it, Trump and his new DOGE agency are doing what so many Republicans have long promised and failed.

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