Steyn of course, is right on. For example, the MSM couldn't’t acknowledge RR as the Man of the Decade, oh no, not him. Those small minded ideologues at Time awarded MOTD to their darling, Gorbachev, for haplessly failing to avert the Communist U.S.S.R’s inexorable decline and ultimate fall.
This is the equivalent to awarding Sportsmen of the Decade to the coach that takes a team from perennial dynasty to cellar dweller prior to being ignominiously fired.
I predict most on the left side in the United States will either display acceptance, pretence to admiration, or outright admiration to Ronald Reagan. (Personally I don't believe they truly like him - maybe they are thinking along the lines of European Left and Right who are still hostile to him. They know too well that they can't show this in public because they are in America)
In much of the rest of the West, the standard Leftist and "Centrist" argument of the Cold war's end is still Gorbachev's achievement, while the standard "Rightist" argument is Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger's detente which caused the SU's eventual fall. To both, Reagan was just a "cowboy fool" who was a lucky bystander.
Of course the Soviet Union's own men put the truth in numerous accounts, but still much of the West refuse to look at the evidences and evaluate them. Tragic.
They will never ever forgive Reagan for defeating their beloved USSR.
The revisionists when into full gear in the early 90's with their "Gorbachev saved the world from Reagan" mantras...