I've been bringing up the fact that I'm hearing a lot of the identical stuff from the Left now that I heard back in the 80s. Andrew Sullivan was kind enough to collect a few examples.

A couple of favorites (boldface mine):

"I wonder how many people, reading about the [Evil Empire'] speech or seeing bits on television, really noticed its outrageous character… Primitive: that is the only word for it. … What is the world to think when the greatest of powers is led by a man who applies to the most difficult human problem a simplistic theology – one in fact rejected by most theologians..."

- Anthony Lewis, New York Times, March 10, 1983

"President Reagan has substituted a mindless militarism for a foreign policy, rattling arms from El Salvador to Saudi Arabia, frightening our friends from Japan to West Germany. He proposes a 50 percent increase in ‘defense expenditures.’ Much of it will be dissipated in the self-defeating spiral of an open-ended nuclear-arms race that poses a greater threat to our own internal and external security than all the Communist propaganda that ever emanated from Moscow. Already, the cost of Reagan policies is devastating to our country in economic strength, in diplomatic influence, in national security, in moral stature."

- John B. Oakes, former senior editor, New York Times, November 1, 1981.