For 36 years, Ronald Reagan was, hands down, the most influential figure in the Republican Party. The era of Reagan Republicans started with his landslide victory over President Jimmy Carter in 1980 and continued long after his death at 93 on June 5, 2004. But with his 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s Patrick Buchanan-influenced “America First” ideology and his mixture of hyper-nationalism, isolationism and protectionism gave the GOP a radical makeover. In an article published on February 19, the Daily Beast’s Riley Rogerson emphasizes that being a “Reagan Republican” is now a major …