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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2017 2:19:39 GMT
Ronald Reagan, is perhaps the most polarizing President of the late 20th century, some say that his legacy- socially, economically and politically- is still being felt to this day.
How should History 'realistically' remember him?
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Post by Nalkarj on May 3, 2017 0:40:09 GMT
I've tried to keep mostly silent about my politics here, and I'll answer no more questions about the subject, but does it clarify anything if I say he's my favorite post-World War II president?  |
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 18:32:24 GMT
Neither, he was average
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Post by hi224 on May 4, 2017 2:41:30 GMT
I've tried to keep mostly silent about my politics here, and I'll answer no more questions about the subject, but does it clarify anything if I say he's my favorite post-World War II president? wow really? interesting. |
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Post by politicidal on May 5, 2017 23:16:52 GMT
Just average, but more near above average.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 6, 2017 13:39:52 GMT
Not a great president, not a disaster, looks like a genius compared to Trump. |
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Post by koskiewicz on May 13, 2017 18:10:03 GMT
...read "Sleepwalking Through History" - America In The Reagan Years, by Haynes Johnson...then make up your mind...
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Post by permutojoe on May 14, 2017 1:17:07 GMT
Depends on your point of view and whether you want the richest 1% to have an absurdly large wealth disparity.
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on May 15, 2017 21:10:15 GMT
Depends on your point of view and whether you want the richest 1% to have an absurdly large wealth disparity. This is the answer. Reagan was the beginning of the end. After Reagan, most parents couldn't promise their kids a better life then theirs (the parents) |
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Post by vegalyra on May 26, 2017 18:16:27 GMT
As with almost all political leaders, some of the things they did were brilliant, and others were atrocious. I'd say with regards to the second half of the twentieth century he was the best President we had. Had JFK lived longer and served a second term I would probably put him first.
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Post by twothousandonemark on May 27, 2017 3:42:06 GMT
His economic bubble burst.
Oliver North.
Middle class shrinkage.
Homophobe + afraid of AIDS.
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Post by bonerxmas on May 27, 2017 3:49:42 GMT
Ronald Reagan, is perhaps the most polarizing President of the late 20th century, some say that his legacy- socially, economically and politically- is still being felt to this day. How should History 'realistically' remember him? nixon was a lot more polarizing, literally polarizing, during the 1968 and 1972 campaigns pollsters always found people either loved or hated, no inbetweeners, reagan was successful because managed to span the breach opened up in the nixon years, the 1980 election was watershed when liberals became alienated from white working class |
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Post by permutojoe on May 27, 2017 12:08:40 GMT
Without a doubt, since Nixon's Southern Strategy was a lot more overt than Reagan's dog whistling, which by the 80's had become so abstract as to mostly just talk about tax cuts that white voters understood would hurt blacks more than them.
Reagan may have spanned the breach opened up by Nixon as far as voters, but on a policy level he only widened the breach, and to great extent, in terms of dividing America into haves and have nots.
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Post by vegalyra on May 30, 2017 15:34:27 GMT
Nixon might have been polarizing in 1960 and 1968 but by 1972 the country loved the guy. He only lost one state (and D.C.). That doesn't sound like polarizing to me.
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Jun 27, 2017 4:59:34 GMT
Easily the BEST and my FAVORITE president during my lifetime.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Jul 4, 2017 10:12:53 GMT
I kinda like him because he's so typically of his time. Same reason I kinda like Jimmy Carter. They are both pretty much nostalgia pieces. It's fun seeing them mentioned in old comedy shows.
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Post by lunda2222 on Aug 2, 2017 11:37:03 GMT
I'd call him a hit and miss president.
Most of his policies where deeply flawed and extremely backwards. His economic policies absolute rubbish and it's only through a combination of sheer luck and pushing the ramifications onto the future that he isn't blamed more for them. His crusades against indecencies was to my mind idiotic. His flirtations with Christian right was a disaster, which seems to hound the US to the present day. He was narrow minded and bigoted.
But he had charisma oozing from every orifice in body. It was almost impossible not to like him. And it worked for him. Because of that the world started to overlook the disaster that was 'Nam and managed to win back some of the respect the US had lost over that conflict. Not through might of arms, but through the sheer force of his personality. And that's quite extraordinary.
He was the first president since Roosevelt who managed to establish a good dialog with the Soviet Union, which pushed the world slightly towards a better path.
Much of the groundwork had been made by Carter, but that doesn't lessen Reagans accomplishment.
I'd say the good outweighs the bad, but not by that much.
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