Could be because it has been 20 years since Reagan, you have to be forty or so maybe older to remember what President Reagan was all about. Public school kids hear nothing positive about him, as a result how would you expect there to be a strong Reagan base today.
As for trhose over forty, take ten ask them to name five things Reagan did, and then be prepared to be astonished with what you will hear. Of the top of your head, can you name fove Reagan accomplishments?
I personally can name most of Reagan’s major accomplishments but your point is well taken. In the last 20 years, the leftists have been in control of the schools and have brainwashed the little kiddies brains completely free of all such dirty concepts as individual liberty, patriotism and the virtues of the American Republic, both at home and abroad.
Not that those concepts are completely dead. Some of the kiddies pick them up elsewhere.
But they are nearly completely wiped from kiddie popular consciousness.
The leftist teachers have done their job well.
The only way to break through the fog of that leftist indoctrination is to have a strong national hero-figure who can possibly momentarily divert the kiddies from their deep pursuits of watching American Idol, diddling each other and text-messaging the results of each diddle.