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[–] BoiseNTheHood 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Oh wait, there's more! The WaPo was also shitting on Reagan in the 1980 election:

In Feb. 1980, The Washington Post political reporter Haynes Johnson questioned whether Reagan’s “loyal legions will stay with him to the end, and if so whether they will be able to avert a final crash.”

It took Reagan winning 206 delegates to George H.W. Bush’s 47 to finally convince Republicans to begin endorsing him “to head off any perception,” as The Washington Post worded it, that he couldn’t win the general election.

http://jpupdates.com/2015/10/20/love-him-or-hate-him-trumps-campaign-mimics-reagans-run/

On June 23, 1979, Barry Sussman in the Washington Post wrote, "Reagan has not picked up substantial support from party activists who represent either strong moderate or small liberal elements of the party, the poll indicates. Many appear to be concerned about some of Reagan's followers — 'arch-conservative kooks,' one poll respondent called them."

https://www.creators.com/read/erick-erickson/12/15/the-goldwater-talking-point