This is funny, blaming Reagan for AIDS was my defining moment for becoming a conservative.
Even when I was a Democrat in the eighties, I was mystified by attacks on Reagan for supposedly not stopping AIDS. Anyone with half a brain knew even in the early eighties that AIDS was mostly caused by unprotected homosexual activity. And the spread could have been halted by the use of condoms. But I remember AIDs activists actually blaming Reagan for a disease whose spread could easily have been stopped in its tracks by the same people it was killing. The truth was too hard for them to face: male homosexuals spread AIDS and could have stoppped it.