Sounds like a parrot of the mainstream press.
I was awake and paying attention during the reagan years - he had a big mess on his hands and showed what leadership can do. He won the cold war! What everyone said could not be done, what everyone said he couldn't do with military strength. He defied the conventional wisdom again and again. The Dems didn't like him - but they also followed him - they feared him. He didn't follow poll data out of fear - he led. He was a man - not someone's BOY like GWB.
I love Reagan, he's by far the best president that I believe I will ever see in my lifetime, but Reagan did not win the cold war by himself, he pushed it over the edge, but you can no more say that he WON it, than you can give sole credit for the Allied victory over Nazi Germany, to the people who landed in Normandy.
It was a war, many fought, all helped.