You are effectively correct, Marxist Democrats hated President Reagan because he left the Communist Union Thug Democrats and took America with him to Common Sense, Morality, Ethics, Trustworthiness and Strength.
Degenerate Democrats never forgave him.
And they also hated that he never mentioned AIDS!
In the university that I worked in, we had to endure the vile “silence equals death” campaign. But I could get away with being openly anti-”gay”, at least within my unit.
In the 2020s, I would be fired, even if I was a stellar researcher and teacher, and had tenure!