"It is our memory of Ronald Reagan that is sustaining us in these rough days."
Interesting that you should mention that notion...
My family and friends often comment to each other that once we can finally unshackle ourselves from this America-hating sociopath currently occupying the Oval Office, our country can once again ascend to that earlier greatness. All these years later and the great Ronald W. Reagan still fortifies us.
The republican fixation today with Reagan is akin to my parents generations fixation with FDR. And, to the younger generation, it is just as ineffective.
We need to look forward, not backward.
Obama, on the other hand, is nothing more than a dry, woody, weed primed for the flicker of a match.