They would continue to attack him. Reagan could do no wrong, Obama can do no right, in their eyes. Great Question.
Maybe if Obama used the CIA and funded deaths squads throughout central and South America that would earn the conservatives respect. Reagan was America's first fully unashamed corporatist President.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.