What if Reagan had not won the election against Jimmy Carter in 1980? How would the course of American and world history have been changed? For me, it is a sobering, almost terrifying, thought.That is a sobering thought.
Here's another one:
What if Reagan had won the 1976 nomination and gone on to win the presidency in that year, instead of 1976.
Is it possible there would have been no Iranian revolution? That's an intriguing possibility.
On the other hand, is it possible that without having to live through the slime and the mud of the Carter years, the American people wouldn't have backed Reagan's economic revolution?
I feel certain that Reagan still would have "torn down that wall" and sent the soviets to the "ash can of history". But we'll never know. Interesting speculation.
It's almost a certainty.