[PinkDolphin]

No way this nation is far more conservative now. Just because a few are speaking up doesn’t mean more are conservative.
And many are more liberal and many are more openly liberal than used to be when RR was governor.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

You are certainly entitled to your opinion. But, more people are openly conservative now that in the 1980s. In the 60s and 70s the general public widely held that government programs could solve poverty, the welfare state was well protected, there were only three places one could go to for network TV news. All of that liberal orthodoxy has been overthrown.

Further, people may not necessarily vote for Republicans every time, but they are much more prone to identify themselves as conservatives today than in RR's day. Plus, folks are more likely to live their lives as conservatives.

Sure you still have communists on campuses. But their ideology has been thoroughly discredited. Even old style liberalism is entrenched in various places, but it's much more evident and liberals in politics cannot identify themselves as such. I tend to be quite optimistic.