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According to the book Napoleon's Hemorrhoids: And Other Small Events That Changed The World, Ronald Reagan wanted to join the Communist Party in 1938, in part because a lot of his friends in Hollywood were members. The Communists, apparently thought Reagan was "a feather brain... a flake who couldn't be trusted with a political opinion for more than twenty minutes." so they didn't allow him to join.

WI they had allowed Reagan into the party? Would his political career be over before it started? Would the Great Communicator get caught up in the McCarthy-era Red Scare? And who, if anyone, would replace the Gipper as the person who reinvigorated/became a saint of American conservatism?
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