Earlier this year, I read a great book about “The Education of Ronald Reagan” which talks about his years working the “rubber chicken circuit” as PR spokesman for GE during the 1950’s and early 1960’s. One of the primary reasons GE brought Reagan into this position was to help in their periodic union elections and negotiations — at the same time, he was sharpening his stump speech promoting free market capitalism and opposing collectivism and its many permutations.
It struck me that not only was Reagan instrumental in winning the Cold War with almost no help from the liberals/Democrats in Congress, he also was instrumental in shrinking the membership and influence of organized labor as well. Two of the great threats to American society defeated by President Reagan! What a legacy.
Sounds like a great book. And he did all that he did while being a good, honorable, likable man who was beloved by the people, another thing that the Left simply cannot stand. Their heroes tend to be America-hating criminals and opportunists who are about as likable as a rabid snake.