re: #418 Gus 802

True. While they failed in many respects he did bring us assholes like Ed Meese. During that time we also got other creeps like Bob Novak. Untold thousands dead in Central and South America. Trickle down economics that only benefited the rich.

re: #420 iceweasel

I basically agree with everything you’ve said about Reagan; the thing for me is that reproductive rights were really the first overtly political area I cared about, and the 80’s was the time when I began to be at all politically aware, so necessarily so it’s always been very large in my windshield and in rear view mirror. /

My position is that: a) you’re right on these issues and b) Reagan didn’t suck a little, he sucked a lot. He was lucky to catch the Monetarism train, and he managed what would turn out to be the last years of the USSR pretty well. That was it. The rest varied from unremarkable to remarkably bad.