Ah yes, the great orator.
When you were still enamored with Trotsky and friends, I became a follower of Ronnie babe.
It was the fall of 1966 and he was running for governor. I made a pilgrimage to hear him give one of canned speeches in Redding, California.
It was staged in a college gym and packed with 18, 19, and 20 somethings. After a rousing introduction by the local county politico, a stetson wearing Chuck Conners, The One and Only Rifleman, strode on stage to give the second introduction. By the time Reagan walked on we were primed.

The speech was masterful. He worked from 4 x 6 cards. It was geared specifically to that audience of draft ready young men. While never bashing the Vietnam war, he nevertheless pounded on the theme that the draft was unconstitutional and should be abolished. He likened it to slavery. It was music to our ears. We stood, applauded, and cheered. It wasn't the only theme.

There was talk of passing a new law that would make California like the federal government by having state income taxes automatically withheld. Reagan was adamantly against it. He said it would be the ruin of California by making taxes painless, and used his famous phrase that "taxes should hurt". He vowed to veto it if elected.

Beside these two specific issues, he lambasted government in general very much like the clip you have linked.

I would be voting for the first time that November. After leaving the auditorium, I went downtown to the local Republican headquarters, walked in a donated $20.00.
It was the first, last, and only time I ever gave money to a political party.

Reagan was a con artist. After getting elected, one of the first things he did was cave in and sign the state withholding tax.
Within a couple of years there was a proposal introduced to abolish the draft. He was silent on the issue. So I wrote him a letter and asked why he wasn't publicly supporting it. To my surprise, he wrote me a personal letter in answer. The gist of it was that "this isn't the proper time, with a war now raging, to undermine our military and give aid and comfort to the anti-war crowd, and the enemy..."
I was by then facing a countdown to induction. It was a slap in the face. He didn't believe a word of the stuff he said, in the final analysis. So I had a little bonfire with Ronnie's scribbles.

If I were a believer, I might think God was having fun when he let the old bag of air live into his '90s without a brain.

The Trots at least had the virtue of being honest. But who knows what they would have done once in power?

But let us expand on this a little. Perhaps the political game is insincere.

Or as my grandpappy used to say, "They are all crooks."

Perhaps not crooks so much as lacking integrity. I think Reagan didn't want to be perceived as an ideologue. Hence the caving in for what he thought were "practical" reasons.
It was interesting that liberal Republican Senators like Mark Hatfield and Margaret Chase Smith, along with Goldwater of course, became leaders in repealing the draft.

I don't think Reagan was ever really a libertarian. Can you imagine him championing marijuana use, like Goldwater?
Also Reagan said that the Bible "has all the answers to the problems we face." Sounds like Glenn Beck, doesn't it.