I would say that each and every candidate running for president has the potential to be a better president than Reagan.
He was a walking, talking, fumbling, doddering disaster whose main attribute was to project a kind old grandfatherly image for a man who was not kind at all, a man who welcomed bloodbaths on university campuses and ptomaine on the hungry beneficiaries of the food the SLA extorted from the Hearsts.
He was a great actor, though. A triumph of advertising and a monument to friendly deception.