FLASHBACK: The Lib­er­al Media’s Long Record of Revil­ing Ronald Rea­gan

This Wednes­day (June 5) marks 20 years since the pass­ing of Ronald Rea­gan, the con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­can Pres­i­dent whose poli­cies led to record eco­nom­ic pros­per­i­ty and laid the foun­da­tion for the peace­ful end to the Cold War. In the years since his death, some in the media have used Reagan’s mem­o­ry as a weapon to bash today’s Repub­li­can Party.In 2015, for exam­ple, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell jux­ta­posed the Gip­per with his would-be suc­ces­sors: “Reagan’s mes­sage was infused with sun­ny opti­mism, the flip side of today’s angry rhetoric.… Rea­gan saw Amer­i­ca as a shin­ing sit on the hill. A coun­try wel­com­ing peo­ple in, not shut­ting th …