Nope. Conservative and centrist respectively.
Reagan never announced he would accept the results of an election only if he won, and then tried to overthrow it. And while Reagan did have charisma (and used it to his advantage), he fell far short of the cult leader status that Trump has amongst his followers.
I guess Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton must have also been fascists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judeo-Christian_ethics
By the 1980s and 1990s, favorable references to "Judeo-Christian values" were common, and the term was used by conservative Christians.[29]
President Ronald Reagan frequently emphasized Judeo-Christian values as necessary ingredients in the fight against Communism. He argued that the Bible contains "all the answers to the problems that face us."[30] Reagan disapproved of the growth of secularism and emphasized the need to take the idea of sin seriously.[31] Tom Freiling, a Christian publisher and head of a conservative PAC, stated in his 2003 book, Reagan's God and Country, that "Reagan's core religious beliefs were always steeped in traditional Judeo-Christian heritage."[32] Religion—and the Judeo-Christian concept—was a major theme in Reagan's rhetoric by 1980.[33]
President Bill Clinton during his 1992 presidential campaign, likewise emphasized the role of religion in society, and in his personal life, having made references to the Judeo-Christian tradition
In the first case, I guess we have one statement contradicting the other. Or maybe just the begging of a question as to exactly what the (unstated) “general principles of Christianity” are.
In the second case, there is a difference between mentioning a “Creator” and the Christian Deity. Plus the fact that said Deity is also worshipped as such by some non-Christian religions. So no implication of Christianity there.
Plus, the Declaration of Independence is (unlike a ratified treaty) a document with exactly no legal standing.
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