"If Ronald Reagan had not defeated Carter, there would be no America."
At a minimum, there would still be a Soviet Union and Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Columbia, and, possibly, Mexico would be client states of the Soviet Union. In a perverse way, the Iranians did us a favor by exposing Carter to the American electorate as weak and spineless.
"In a perverse way, the Iranians did us a favor by exposing Carter to the American electorate as weak and spineless."
Nightline probably gave RR more votes because of what you pointed out above, than all of our tv ads.