Good analysis. And I would add, Reagans 80s are very different from todays 2017.
And think for a minute if in the 1980s, someone said we were trying to save America from the aftermath of a gay moslem revolutionary socialist presidency, that we were no longer the biggest creditor nation in the world but were the biggest debtors at 20 Trillion. And that all our kids loved homosexuals and trannies.
Times were different, but the enemy was the same.
Reagan said government was not the solution, but was the problem.
It still is.
The dark gray time that is represented by Ø (the nothing) ended. But his leaches are still in place in many government agencies.