Things have been happening exactly the way he said they would.
I love listening to Reagan, I really really love it. It reminds me that at least in popular rhetoric, the ideas of classical liberalism are not yet dead.
Well, it wouldn’t do to idealize him, of course, especially in light of some of the events during his presidency. He was still part of the system, after all. But I do believe that his anti-socialist stance wasn’t simply a mask to get votes.