Reply #11: It is called "cult of personality," and Reagan's cult survived his demise.

[Ozymanithrax]

Reagan was the great triumph of Conservatism, just as Bush II "Reagan's Paul of Tarsus," who became the high priest that put Reagan's ideas into action. Because Reaganism went so badly under Bush, people are even more inclined to look back at that Golden Age when Government was evil, Greed was Good, and Reagan's aphorisms were new.