First?
Well, prior to that, there was the assassination of JFK, followed by the Soviet-instigated "cultural revolution" of the sixties, with huge protests from black power, the counter-culture hippies, women's lib, "God is dead", the queer movement, plus Bill Ayers and the weathermen, Abbie Hoffman etc etc etc....
Then before that, the McCarthy hearings, rousting out Hollywood and public figures...and even before that...the good old Gray Lady.
Reagan destroyed the USSR, but they also destroyed American culture. Today half the voting public supports Marxism.
Hey, wake up and give me my hunnert!
Comrade, you make fun if U.S.S.R.?, is no good, you go to re-education camp with Harvey Weinsteen - or as they say in mexican - Pronto