about reagan. he had no neeutd to show howd smart he was. he knew exactly what i was asking. he didn t want to talk about it. if you thought he was a dunce, he didn t care because he knewc he want. it would also be some time before charles krauthammer embraced a conservative domestic policy, taxes, welfare, small government, and otherl reaganesque sins. it took me about aer decade. i was skeptical of tax cuts. i was skeptical of smaller government at the beginning. and then by the end of the 80si i hadnn begun to change. what happened? the empirical evidence. as a doctor i had been trained in impeer cal evidence. if the empirical evidence. if the treatment is killing your patients, you stop the treatment. i began to look and to think about whether the view i had of a social democratic society like they had in europe was the right way and i sort of i moved gradually to the idea of a more limited society, smaller government. by that time, his world was really falling int