No, Trump is just as “vicious”. Let’s just say he was willing to insult everyone from the beginning (i.e., long before actually being pres).
Reagan was treated very badly, but they simply could not attack him for anything he said about anything, officially or even casually (no tweeting, which I guarantee Reagan would not do). It was impossible to critique him that way, because he did not engage.
Plus, Reagan dealt with DEM legislature 95% of the time. I hardly count the 2 years Rep got the Senate briefly.
The difference was no one could knock him personally. It was impossible for anything that seemed nasty about him to stick because he didn’t play into it, and he just wasn’t that way.
We can disagree.
Trump is as he has proclaimed from the get go a counter puncher. He reacts to attacks rather than taking the “high road”.
I believe you would be hard pressed to note even one claimed racist, bigoted or homophobic statement made by Trump which was anything more than hyper exaggeration by liberals