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What's so great about him anyway?

posted 8 months ago by Rorikon (18378)
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Sure he got the popular vote and turned most of America red twice back then, but didn't his Reganomics helped end the Middle Class?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/column-how-reaganomics-deregulation-and-bailouts-led-to-the-rise-of-trump

Tax cuts, trickle-down economics, deregulation, globalization and NAFTA and bailouts all conferred tremendous financial benefits on only one group: the ultrarich. They led to the “hollowing out” of the middle class. So wealth and its concomitant, political power, became as concentrated as it was during the era of the Robber Barons at the turn of the 20th century.

[–] PaladinNJ (21771) 6 months ago

Well, he did break the twenty-year presidency jinx.

[–] ewd76 (1576) 6 months ago

Part of it was the way he talked, but nothing really special about him. It's just compared to everything that's going on now, that time seems to have been so much better.

[–] fc31 (6110) 2 months ago

He was the turning point, the start of Neo-liberalism, and the end of Keynesian economics.

Also I think many people credited him with the fall of Soviet.

So good or bad, he is somebody, not a nobody president.

[–] AnthonySocksss (1564) 14 days ago

Technically Ford was the first neoliberal

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21706) 14 days ago

I think he helped make Americans proud of their country again after the rough years just before his presidency.

[–] KaiMaster (924) 14 days ago

The assassination of President Kennedy derailed the USA. President Reagan got the nation back on track.

[–] AnthonySocksss (1564) 14 days ago

Reagan was a mediocre tv actor who became president, a bit like Trump

[–] KaiMaster (924) 13 days ago

Anthony, you sound jealous because no Democrat will ever win 49 states in the Electoral College.

[–] AnthonySocksss (1564) 13 days ago

Fukk democrats tew

[–] Spacetimer8032 (249) 13 days ago

[–] AnthonySocksss (1371) a day ago
"Reagan was a mediocre tv actor who became president, a bit like Trump"

Tony, i just want you to know you are anything but mediocre.

[–] GrayBush (98) 13 days ago

He was chosen to lead a newly formed "moral majority" into passing legislation dictating corporations are people thus setting the pace for the Citizens United coalition.
Thus the beginnings of the Oligarchy we have now.
Better vote true Blue in 26 because there will not be an election in 2024 otherwise.