If Reagan had a GOP majority and control of the House purse strings, like Bush43 did for six years, he might have been able to properly address the overall bloated federal bureaucracy by applying federalism to the notion of limited government.
Again, Reagan was a conservative who got his way 75% of the time. Not the mark of a pragmatist.
So you’re saying that he pragmatically compromised 25% of the time. Not much of a purist, was he?