>>I’m afraid that we were so divided. It’s just that the media was more monolithic back then and did not report on it. If we were unified in that weakness referred to herein, then Reagan would not have attained the presidency.
You make the common mistake of looking at history through contemporary goggles.
Nothing contemporary about it.
The 1976 Reagan campaign was also a glaring example of both media bias and the country’s division, if the Vietnam War was not.