Ann Coulter recently stated that Ronald Reagan was the last presidential candidate as unpopular as Donald Trump. She claimed to cite a Los Angeles Times poll from March 1980, close to the same period in which the current presidential campaign finds itself. And irrespective of the numbers, Trump defenders have argued that he and Reagan were both unpopular outsiders; Jeffrey Lord, for instance, said that “establishment critics said the exact-same things about Reagan” as they do about Trump, “down to the very words sometimes.” Part of this dismissiveness, of course, is rooted in doubt about the candidate’s viability.