I'm no Republican but I admittedly enjoyed watching my fellow residents in flyover country stand up last night and throw a great big FU to a party that had progressed beyond the point of merely being self-righteous, sanctimonious scolds and were well into the the process of beginning to codify their own particular form of cultural warfare.
It could very well end up being unfortunate that a self-delusional sociopath like Trump turned out to be the primary beneficiary of this backlash (is whitelash a word?), but oddly enough I find myself more concerned by the motivations and intentions of some of the creepy little pukes who have attached themselves to his coattails than I am with Trump himself.
When you consider that administration's fiscal irresponsibility, massive expansion of federal government, assault on personal freedoms, negotiations with terrorists, and clear preference for Wall St over Main St then yeah, I think it's entirely appropriate to consider the possibility that Reagan helped strike a significant death-knell for true conservatism.