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April 28, 2016 at 12:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 56 Comments

“Well you know I’m a big fan of Ronald Reagan. But I love all these knuckleheads talking about the party of Reagan. He would be the most moderate Republican elected today.”

— Former Speaker John Boehner, quoted by the Stanford Daily.

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