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Why do people like Ronald Reagan so much and why do Republicans basically worship him?
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Reagan came to office after a really, really bad decade for America: losing the Vietnam War, a president resigning in disgrace, his replacement getting shot at a bunch, his replacement being nice but largely useless, stagflation, the oil crisis, disco. Reagan not only oversaw a, on the whole, better decade economically, but also ran on and provided an image of an American comeback. He had a campaign strategy of emphasizing a return to America greatness, while painting his Democratic opponents as pessimistic and out-of-date (not entirely inaccurate criticisms, mind you).

Republicans worship him due to all that, plus he was the first Republican leader of the new republican/neo-con/religious right era of the party. It was a distinct shift from the Goldwater/McCarthy/Nixon era of the party, and brought the Republicans back to dominance after a good half-century of being the minority party.