No, the current GOP would try and edge Ron out and get a moderate/liberal Repub in there. So, in a sense, they’re right.
That’s how I see it too. The media and the Rockefeller Republican crowd were definately against Reagan in 1980, and worked against him. The difference now is that the media and the GOP-E would actively “collude” together, and not just to defeat a Reagan, but to destroy him and obliterate every vestige of his person and his character, via smears, falsehoods, and any other mendacious weapon.