re: #182 Hecuba’s daughter

A lot worse than the Reagan cult. For all his flaws, and they were many (including mishandling the epidemic of his time), Reagan was not a traitor who admired the Russian government nor was he a bully. He earned his wealth and did not inherit it. A much better person than the monster who is poised to destroy our nation if he ever gets back into power.

Iran Contra was literally treason.

And he didn’t admire the Russian government because at the time it was Soviet. He, like many conservatives, instead admired various dictatorships.

Go back and read through Reagan’s actual policy and he’s just Trump with a better aesthetic: imperialist, militarist, contemptuous of civil liberty when it permits choices outside social conservative preferences, a bigot, and willing to devolve power to private interests that treat the US public as a host to feed on.

It’s like valorizing Stage 1 syphilis for not being Stage 2 syphilis.