I’ve been anti-nostalgia for most of my life. Never been too much into looking backwards. I like old entertainment media, but until recently I never really got wistful for the actual era. The best thing about the 80s was really just being a kid.
Reagan sucked, there was the AIDS epidemic, Cold War, Greed is Good, the threat of nuclear war. The real 80s was more ugly brown than neon.
That being said, 80s America > 2020s America. Not even close.