Ronald Reagan signed the Brady Bill, illegal immigration amnesty, a campaign finance law, and Federal Budgets that spent a higher percentage of GDP than what we have now.
Add to that Reagan's appointment of the liberal Sandra Day O'Connor to the SC, Reagan signing tax increases, and minimum wage increases (I could go on) and what we have are worse compromises than what we have now.
This all has been pointed out many times here on FR.
Your cognitive dissonance isn't funny.
There's also the massiver SS tax increase.