I haven’t encountered a Reagan Democrat in a generation<
Well, generally speaking, they are voting Democrats out of tradition, or as one might say - a historic family loyalty. I have known some very conservative teachers that vote Democrat because, "We don't have a choice."
When you get an 'America first' Republican candidate that is strong enough to motivate a conservative loyalty-voting Democratic to vote Republican, then you have a Reagan Democrat. An establishment, globalist Republican doesn't doesn't motivate a 'fed-up' Democrat, neither does a religious, social conservative Republican.
I’ve known them, too, but, I’mm 66, and I haven’t encountered any of them in a long time.
“An establishment, globalist Republican doesn’t doesn’t motivate a ‘fed-up’ Democrat,” True, they make up the Bernie base. The fed-up Democrat is the OWS crowd.