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He was seen as a joke over here, not over there. Over there, liberals/left didn't find him funny. He put a folksy gloss on some really shitty things.
Almost anybody looks good next to Trump. I guess you could say Reagan conned blue collar America into feeling optimistic about the neolib economics that were going to impoverish them, whereas Trump is pumping them up with hate to distract them from the same thing. Slight improvement on that count, except that it helped get us here.