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Reality won't matter
Nostalgia will.
Reagan defeated communism.
The Cold War was the issue of his time and he "defeated" it. The facts mean little. If they did with respect to past presidents, Lincoln wouldn't be known as someone standing up against slavery, when his primary objective was to hold the union together, not free the slaves.
I admire those that focus on the facts of Reagan but the average Joe and Jane citizen in the midwest remember the nostalgia of his presidency. He did lead, whether it was wrong or right, he made people believe he was right. History will most likely put him in the camp with the great presidents, whether we that know of the facts want him to or not.