[Cold Heat]

To a degree yes.....but in the same way that Cruz is a outsider. Both attacked the status quo....but Reagan came to power from the California Governors office..so politically he was not a outsider...and neither is cruz in that respect.

A Outsider to the degree that trump is, absolutely no political experience or elected office, is not necessarily a good thing, as history tells us.

[longtermmemmory]

Carter ran cold war commercials against Reagan.

Mondale went to the USSR to seek help against Reagan.

The old media never supported Reagan

hardly the same and different time.