What does Veeky Forums think of him?

what does Veeky Forums think of him?

He increased taxes and increased spending. But it is normal to glorify him when other last 30 candidates are 2 dubyas.

He's literally a figurehead. An empty shell that people project "values" and achievements onto. His wife did more policy work than he did. He's a fucking moron.

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His popularity is largely due to the enormous amount of propaganda produced about him by corporate media who owe their existence to him by repealing FCC bylaws on media ownership.

He was an idiot and I sort of wonder what even inspired him to want to be president anyway

he was the first neocon president.

and we havent had an actual conservative in the white house ever since


trump is actually to the right of reagan and both bushes

A senile corporate puppet responsible for immense amounts of suffering

>what does Veeky Forums think of him?

He was a gentle nice old Grandfather that couldn't tie his own shoes by himself.

1. Be Poppy Bush, Vice President and former CIA Chief
2. Orchestrate an assassination attempt on Reagan in 1981
3. It leaves Ronnie brain damaged or terrified or both
4. ?????
5. PROFIT!!!1! (by running the whole country from the VPs office with your CIA personal army)

A senile traitor who sold the Republican party out to multinational corporations. Nixon was the last good republican and no whitebread neo-con fuckwit can say otherwise.

his rhetoric skills are his only redeemable feature

He was the start of the Republicans parties slide into ye olde style reactionariesm. His administration shifted the countries political center further right than it had been since Herbert Hoover economically while making Fascist Christian Theocrats the most major power brokers in the country. He ruined the economy, almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the Cold War, and used racism to convince working class whites to destroy their own safety nets to give the superrich free run of the place because their own self interest might also help a black person. The movement he started is directly responsible for Trump and the Zodiac Killer, whose policies are the natural culmination of his.

won the cold war, saved America from stagflation

8/10 would elect again

>This delicious salt

A real human bean

>armed religious radicals in the Middle East
>murdered innocents via death squads in Central America
>began the "lower taxes on the rich" and "deregulate muh everything" that helped lead to the financial crisis
>supported racist and corrupt governments (e.g. his supporting of apartheid) while pretending to be a moral person

Very few presidents are 0/10 but he's one of them. If there is a hell he's burning in it right now.

Oh and let's not forget his ignoring the HIV crisis. Truly a figurehead of everything wrong with the religious right.

>supported racist and corrupt governments (e.g. his supporting of apartheid) while pretending to be a moral person
Spotted the suicidal leftist

>if you're anti-apartheid you're a suicidal leftist

Found the retarded neo con Reagan lover. Why don't you go trickle down somewhere else, faggot.

My nigga.

Literally everything wrong with modern American can be traced either partly or totally to the Reagan Revolution.

The top tax rate was 70% when he entered office. He lowered it to the mid 30s where it stays today.

>1974 was a part of the Reagan revolution

He kinda sucked.

He introduced a lot of bad ideas that became staples of the Republican party afterwards because "Reagan did it!"

I will say that as a naval enthusiast I appreciate some of the things which came out of his 600 ship navy plan even though it was actually pretty overambitious and definitely not sustainable to have that many ships in service during peace-time.

So in conclusion, overall pretty bad but thanks for the boats.

>what is the Nixon administration being a warm-up run for the neocons

Explain your reasoning.

Do you even know who the neocons were?

He was out of office in 1974.

Can I get a fundamental rundown on good and bad points about Reagan? You'd think learning about the Cold War in school would've given me some something to work with but all we learnt about was SDI and "muh ebil embire"

He left office in 1976 and his protege was in office until 1976.

>On August 9, 1974, he[Nixon] resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office. After his resignation, he was issued a pardon by his successor, Gerald Ford.

That was a rather unfortunate typo.

But yeah, Ford was in office until Carter in 1976.

Good

>managed to end stagflation and win the cold war

Bad

>literally everything else
>lel let's cut taxes and increase spending that's sustainable :^)
>lel let's especially cut the taxes of the super rich, muh trickle down :^)
>lel let's shoot military spending through to unsustainable levels and further increase the power of the military industrial complex :^)

>managed to end stagflation

Wasn't this more due to the actions of the Fed raising interest rates than anything Reagan did?

>managed to end stagflation and win the cold war

Ending 10 years of no growth and an existential threat to life on the planet is a big deal.

>lel let's cut taxes and increase spending that's sustainable :^)

Clinton ended his term with a surplus just 12 years later. Clearly the deficit was no big deal.

>lel let's especially cut the taxes of the super rich, muh trickle down :^)

No one was paying the 70% rate because rich people have tax lawyers who funnel their money into areas where there are exemptions.

Beyond the reality that the government didn't capture much of that money, there is a moral argument against such aggressively redistributive policy. The system of property rights is such that an owner of property can absolutely exclude others from his property. Other people are not entitled to a rich man's assets. Taxation is justified when it is spent for public goods, not when it aims at transfer payments.

>lel let's shoot military spending through to unsustainable levels and further increase the power of the military industrial complex :^)

This is an important part of the strategy which ended the cold war.

The Treasury Dept forbade the fed from enacting smart policies because they were afraid of job losses. From Nixon to Carter.

Makes one think

>saved America from stagflation

Okay

>>managed to end stagflation

Mostly Carter's choice for Fed Chairman. Volcker.

>Ending 10 years of no growth
???????

He was very good at waging class warfare on behalf of the country's owners, and both democrats and republicans have followed his example ever since he left so as to continue the pillaging of the middle class.

Also he was a great actor, which I'm sure helped him in misleading the public into actually believing that what he was doing was in their best interest. He legitimately deserves an oscar for his role as president.

Hmm

Paul Volcker was selected by Carter in 1977 and took office in 1978.

Ending stagflation was thanks to carter's appointments and the Soviet Union was already on its way down by the time Reagan came in. Whoever was president could've done the same thing.

Why do the Republican Party love this guy so much?

You guys make him out as awful.

t. unfree foreigner

Because of this

Popular and not an idiot.

Even when he had Alzheimers in early 1989, he was still better at speaking than Clinton or Trump.

"he was an idiot" says the neckbeard marxist as he writes from his mom's basement

>muh marxist boogeyman

Not everyone has a servile mentality like you, if you want to be dominated join a fetish group. I bet there are plenty of women who'd be willing to be peg you while wearing a Regan mask.

/thread

Not nearly as good a president as modern conservatives revere him as. Just because he supposedly stood for republican party values doesn't mean he had a squeaky-clean record.

>All this butthurt
Okay Veeky Forums, who do we have a general consensus on being a good leader

JAMES MOTHERFUCKING K. POLK.

Teddy Roosevelt

>implying machines didn't increase productivity
>implying wage is the the only form of employment compensation

stop posting this bullshit

Machines have been increasing productivity since before the industrial revolution m8

Lyndon B Johnson

Not much of an accomplishment with who he was against.

>Just because he supposedly stood for republican party values doesn't mean he had a squeaky-clean record.

Motherfucker was a professional crook. He committed high treason on more than one occasion by sabotaging the hostage negotiations with Iran causing Carter to lose the presidency and for the Iran-Contra Affair.

Nay

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He was a fucking idiot who sat on his ass and watched TV all day.

fuck nixon

What is your reasoning for that perspective, friend?

EISENHOWER

Remember how autistic Bush II was?

>he was still better at speaking than Clinton or Trump
The dude was a seasoned actor. Not a particularly good one, but he knew exactly how to articulate himself and command attention on the camera.