Of course it is. That's why it's published now and any evidence is cited from 2004[1] and 2016[2].

[1] http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041129/full/news041129-4.htm...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/nov/02/a-decade-of-...

Exactly what I thought. The article written by a journalist with a Twitter feed full of anti-Trump tweets, about a speech at a conference in Boston that also featured an anti-Trump protest. Bringing the Reagan angle into the story sealed it.

The biggest tell is that this article, and the many that were also written in other news sites (rewritten, really) don't cite a specific study.