Could somebody explain the greatness of Ronald Reagan to me...

Could somebody explain the greatness of Ronald Reagan to me? I've always heard him held in esteem by conservatives and I'd like to know how he's regarded around here

He was a neoliberal corporate puppet that fucked over American workers with muh free trade

He was strong on America's enemies, but he was a cuckservative when it comes to social policies, giving women no fault divorce and calling for the end of apartheid

From 1965-1979, like now things were very much in upheaval and shitty.

Reagan came in a pulled a more eloquent version of Trump. "America is great and we are going to be great again"

He coupled that attitude (which is the most important thing a president brings) and helped uncuck the tax code a bit and helped foment the rise of our financial isles econemy

So you get a nationalist positive guy coupled with economic prosperity =. People like him

As far as greatness is concerned, Bush Sr's foreign policies moved the Doomsday Clock from 6 minutes to midnight back to 17 minutes to midnight. The incompetence of all the administrations after Bush Sr 's have pushed the Clock forward to 3 minutes to midnight.

At one point the Doomsday Clock under Reagan's watch was also 3 minutes to midnight, and the graphic novel Watchmen was a social commentary about the apathy/insanity surrounding the issue.

Literally no reason

he wasnt great. its just a neo-con meme

Nobody cares about the doomsday clock because he doomsday clock is retarded

He was awesome sauce!

1. Reagan was a serial tax raiser. As governor of California, Reagan “signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.” Meanwhile, state spending nearly doubled. As president, Reagan “raised taxes in seven of his eight years in office,” including four times in just two years. As former GOP Senator Alan Simpson, who called Reagan “a dear friend,” told NPR, “Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times in his administration — I was there.” “Reagan was never afraid to raise taxes,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, who edited Reagan’s memoir. Reagan the anti-tax zealot is “false mythology,” Brinkley said.

2. Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.” Reagan enacted a major tax cut his first year in office and government revenue dropped off precipitously. Despite the conservative myth that tax cuts somehow increase revenue, the government went deeper into debt and Reagan had to raise taxes just a year after he enacted his tax cut. Despite ten more tax hikes on everything from gasoline to corporate income, Reagan was never able to get the deficit under control.

3. Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded. Despite the myth that Reagan presided over an era of unmatched economic boom for all Americans, Reagan disproportionately taxed the poor and middle class, but the economic growth of the 1980’s did little help them. “Since 1980, median household income has risen only 30 percent, adjusted for inflation, while average incomes at the top have tripled or quadrupled,” the New York Times’ David Leonhardt noted.

Honest. 4. Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future. He promised to cut government agencies like the Department of Energy and Education but ended up adding one of the largest — the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, which today has a budget of nearly $90 billion and close to 300,000 employees. He also hiked defense spending by over $100 billion a year to a level not seen since the height of the Vietnam war.

5. Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to choose. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that “resulted in more than a million abortions.” When Reagan ran for president, he advocated a constitutional amendment that would have prohibited all abortions except when necessary to save the life of the mother, but once in office, he “never seriously pursued” curbing choice.

6. Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.” He wrote in his memoirs that “[m]y dream…became a world free of nuclear weapons.” “This vision stemmed from the president’s belief that the biblical account of Armageddon prophesied nuclear war — and that apocalypse could be averted if everyone, especially the Soviets, eliminated nuclear weapons,” the Washington Monthly noted. And Reagan’s military buildup was meant to crush the Soviet Union, but “also to put the United States in a stronger position from which to establish effective arms control” for the the entire world — a vision acted out by Regean’s vice president, George H.W. Bush, when he became president.

He's mostly a talking point for modern republicans, he couldn't get elected in today's political climate.

No, really
7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty. The bill was sold as a crackdown, but its tough sanctions on employers who hired undocumented immigrants were removed before final passage. The bill helped 3 million people and millions more family members gain American residency. It has since become a source of major embarrassment for conservatives.

8. Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran. Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran, which was subject to a an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages. Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing. When the deals went public, the Iran-Contra Affair, as it came to be know, was an enormous political scandal that forced several senior administration officials to resign.

9. Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act. which placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate. Reagan responded by saying “I deeply regret that Congress has seen fit to override my veto,” saying that the law “will not solve the serious problems that plague that country.”

Fer sure.

10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Talbian and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahidin commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters. In fact, Reagan’s decision to continue the proxy war after the Soviets were willing to retreat played a direct role in Bin Laden’s ascendancy.

He was retarded

Because he said "America is back", hyping everyone in the world

>apathy

Liberal autism autism Reagan is hilarious

No it's not apathy no group of scientists can "predict". How close we are to nuclear war

Looks like an old monkey in a suit. And it's A FUCKING WHITE MALE

Confusing.

Old guy here.
Reagan was fucking awesome.

He was a retarded and a literal puppet of bush.

He was only elected due to bush's iran-contra arrangement thanks to his cia connections.

*He was a retard. He needs to thank the Bushes for allowing him to be their puppet.

>Liberal autism autism Reagan is hilarious

Not an argument you nigger. Stop being a cuck, Reagan was TERRIBLE. Doesn't take a liberal to see that.

This.

There was a perception that things were awesome during his presidency but shit was in shambles in America.

Now people just resurrect his corpse to show how cool at necromancy they are.

He was a Bush puppet. The Bushes/CIA made a deal with the iranians to instigate the hostage crisis, and the iranians were paid back with contra a couple years later.

Did you see my original post ? He was popular because he was a positive beer leader and he happened to be around when he econemy went into a secular growth period

People loved him and still do

Just like we can go full retard on Roosevelt or Lincoln and all heir fuck ups that's not the perception and no blog post on Sup Forums is going to change he minds off people who were there

Thus autism

gave an amnesty to shitskins, anti-White