LOL! I recall the Springsteen flap. Reagan was "cooler" than Springsteen though. "Go ahead, make my day." Reagan was a spaghetti Western anti-hero.
As a teenager, I did have long hair for a period. And I saw a Ted Nugent concert once. There were actually quite a few different fashion scenes going on between '75 and the early '80s. The long hair and jeans scene that went along with pot, Rock music, and lots of sex. There was the exotic but vapid Disco thing based out of Manhattan. The various avant-garde punk and New Wave stuff with a heavy influence from the UK. Really weird hair. At the same, in the private schools of the then Late Modern Atlantic civilization, there were guys with short hair who dressed very conservatively and preppy, voted Republican , read National Review, Burke, and Evelyn Waugh novels, but also smoked pot and listened to Rock Music. The Republican Party reptiles. National Lampoon's Animal House (although set in the early Camelot '60s) was fairly close to what this was all about. Lots of beer, glib humor, and staid conservative clothing. Some of us are in charge of part of the country now. Scary?
Well, we won the Cold War. Still don't get the baggy pants though.