There’s a story online at Newsweek entitled, “The Left Starts to Rethink Ronald Reagan.” The story features an interview with Sean Wilentz, a prominent liberal activist, who has been reconsidering Reagan’s legacy. (Wilnetz’s reconsideration follows Sen. Obama’s remarks that Reagan was a ‘transformational’ president.)
Wilnetz sees much that was positive in Reagan, and urges others on the left to do so.
Wilnetz might have noted that many of the right should reconsider Reagan, too. I am not sure that Reagan would recognize much of the party that he led so successfully.