And the companies that benefited instead of growing fat and lazy, were able to attract investment capital and retool and became much more competitive.
And he used trade policy to help crush the Soviet Union.
And Reagan intervened with loans to help Chrysler too.
Ronald Reagan was instrumental in creating the WTO, NAFTA was his idea, and he favored other free trade agreements. That was the portion of your comment that made me laugh out loud. Your idea is much funnier than some bozo trying to claim Reagan’s mantle as an excuse for the goverment controlling more of our lives (and raising taxes).