Reagan had a democrat house, under the estimable Thomas P. O’Neill, for the whole of his 8 years. He had a Republican Senate for 6 years, but they were fairly worthless under Bob Dole. And he didn’t have anyone of the ability of Elon. RR did pretty well, all things considered. But yes, Trump has already exceeded him.
RR had to deal with the Soviet Union.
Trump is now dealing with the Deep State.
We had to establish the Deep State to take on the Soviet Union. Eisenhower warned us about the MIC.
But we didn't transition to the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
We should have pulled out of NATO. And shrank the size of MIC.