I am seeing it as very much the same. Right now we have the entire media engaging in mass hysteria to find the "witches (racists) among us.
They take anything to represent "evidence" of racism.
Yes, the conformist Puritan types are doing it again.
"(those) old enough to know better let young people think that they had the right to choose the laws they would obey as long as they were doing it in the name of social protest" -Reagan
Social protest was later changed to social justice with Jim Jones. Concept was the same. I think Reagan was talking about the zoot suit riots my father lived in East LA at that time. Said the zoot suit gangs wouldn't allow anyone to walk the streets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05xJk9CnoRI