that’s not what reactionary means… reactionary comes from the French revolution and referred to people who wanted to preserve or later restore the monarchy. Now it’s pretty much anyone anti-progress or anti-revolution… or anti-communist to the communists.
“make america great again” is an extremely reactionary slogan, for example.
when i first heard it i thought it was more like “over reactive” too.
i see where it comes from too but it’s, well it just bugs me. it’s a mostly online thing, though…