The thing about Reagan to remember is that he was the GOP version of Obama where he was basically untouchable and that the media actively protected and pushed him as the greatest modern President ever. To such a degree, that you had shit like SNL being banned from making fun of Reagan for the bulk of his term (and only being allowed to do so when Lorne Michaels returned and had creative control to buck the network, and even then only able to do it in Reagan's last year in office.
This has LONG been a huge thing for the left, who keep pushing the meme that Reagan was actually SUPER FUCKING HATED AND DESPISED by Americans but the cowardly corporate media buried every negative Reagan story they could or anti-Reagan work produced in popular culture to create the falls image/history that Reagan was the second coming. Then 911 happened and Reagan's role in creating Al Quada and the Taliban came out and it created a MASSIVE struggle from the left and the right over Reagan's legacy and the right being super defensive over "protecting" Reagan's place in history.