I'm not so sure. Voters are idiots. I bet more than 35% of the people that voted this past election couldn't pick Reagan out of a lineup, let alone understand anything that Reagan stood for. You can't vote for Barack Obama and at the same time want him to emulate Ronald Reagan - It is intellectually incongruous.
You can't call the nation center-right when we have overwhelming Democratic majorities in Congress, a majority of Democratic Governors and the most leftist Democratic President ever. The pendulum swung decidedly towards the left. And, I would say it began swinging during Clinton's term. Sure, we had a Republican President and Congress, but they were anything but conservatives. With the exception of social issues, the last twenty years have been increasingly socialist - not very Reagan-like.
Ditto