[mikegreenwell39]

I was three in 1980; that being said the Reagan presidency was disastrous for America- permanent and catastrophic demographic change, creeping statism, and dog-eat-dog capitalism that hollowed out the industrial and ethical core of our nation- and for what? A hollow “victory” over the Soviet Union- far from being one of the best President’s as GOP heterodoxy maintains he was one of the worst, as was every one of his successors, until President Trump.

[Reverend Wright]

I don’t go quite that far, but the right is long overdue for a re-assessment of Reagan and Thatcher.

Reagans’s failures - Financialization, deindustrialization, Hedge fund economics, Amnesty, mass immigraion, gun control, NeoCon foreign policy delusions, Messianic propositional citizenship. NAFTA. All those things were long term disasters. The wins - victory in the Cold War and disinflation weren’t permanent gains

Thatcher- a lot of the same, but instead of NAFTA, wildly empowering the EU via the Single European Act. Only wins were disinflation and getting the unions under control

[StAnDeliver]

"I was three in 1980; that being said the Reagan presidency was disastrous for America- permanent and catastrophic demographic change, creeping statism, and dog-eat-dog capitalism that hollowed out the industrial and ethical core of our nation- and for what? A hollow “victory” over the Soviet Union"

President Reagan, with the help of another Pole, Karol Józef Wojtyła, freed your bug-eating ancestors in Poland. What, did your relatives back home owe you money or something? LOFL!