*murders central american nuns*

*murders central american nuns*

*destroys the concept of family*

*destroys image of any genuine conservatism with muh trickledown and neoliberalism*

*dements internally*

Is he one of the few objectively bad presidents?

>I'll shrink government!
>Spending increases dramatically

Most overrated president ever, especially for being a conservative poster boy

I'm a huge libtard, but I disagree with that.

Reagan had the foresight to believe that the USSR was near collapse, at a time when the CIA, State Department, and basically everyone else were convinced that the Cold War was never going to end and detente was the only "solution" available.

He was then able to pursue a policy of confrontation that hastened the fall of the Soviet Union without triggering a nuclear war.

It's like LBJ or Nixon, he did both terrible and great things during his term.

Now Buchanan was pure, unadulterated failure.

What is your post referencing?

No, he funded people to murder foreign civilians. That's totally different, and worthy of the Nobel prize.

He is amongst the best ones.He saved the crippling American economy and basically killed the USSR.Reagan hate is a meme spread by Trotsky and his army of NEETs

Why do people rate the president on grounds other than whether or not they bettered the standing of the united states compared to other countries? That is the only thing I rate presidents on, all else is small potatoes.

*flexes on the soviet union*
>Best conservative around
*lets in 500,000 darkies*
>conserve my race? hell no
If I wanted to visit Mexico I'd visit Mexico.

Pros
>Improved the economy a lot
>BTFO the Soviet Union
>United the american people.One of the most beloved presidents at the time
>Charismatic.Could get away with anything.
>Brought huge stability to the country and enthusiasm
cons
>Sloppy international policy in the middle east
>Deficit balloned
>Amnesty
>Some morally questionable stuff

Reagan was a great president.You pinkos just hate him because he BTFO your precious Soviet Union

>likes Reagan.
>Also likes Trump.

How do republican voters even reconcile the neo-liberal policies of one and the alleged protectionist policies of the other?

Not even a communist but the fall of the USSR was an obvious negative

That's nothing

>Be normalfag (poorfag af but decent) in Honduras/El Salvador/Guatemala
>Flee your otherwise relatively safe country because US sponsored contras and paramilitary death squads
>Go to Murica, get trashed and assimilated to americulture by forming massive street gang criminal organizations
>Deported en masse in the 90s
>Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala overran with this americulture street gangs overnight
>Present day: thousands of dead every year, absolute warzone areas in many cities.

That was a real fuck my shit up.

*funds deaths squads in central america

*sells weapons to iranians*

because there are other topics they agree on. could say the same about dems loving obama and jfk even though jfk was an economic conservative, doesn't mean they didn't share the same social concerns.

While far out of the scope of this board (pls no ban, this isn't a /pol/ post) people are unhappy with the results of "free trade". While economists have proven that free trade policies have helped the average American through cheaper goods, large sectors of the United States were irreparably harmed such as the white working class. For example, the American auto sector which voted for Reagan in the hopes that it would (and temporarily did) save their jobs in defense against Asian automakers, was destroyed as parts manufacturing was moved to Canada and Mexico for cheaper labor and only assembly remained. Another consequence was that it absolutely fucking destroyed the Mexican AND Canadian trucking industries as American trucking companies had the logistics to outpace both, but no one ever talks about that. Iirc, despite being a provision of NAFTA, Mexican truckers still can't legally cross the border and instead have to offload their goods to be picked up by Americans.

>Be Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemalan governments
>Implement "Mano Dura" policies
>Arrest a shit ton of people, mainly youth, because fuck it
>Prisons overcrowded
>Turns out mixing petty thieves who stole a few chickens with hardened well connected Maras may not be a good idea
>Prisons become social networks for criminal organizations
>Mara influence spreads

>Be El Salvador
>Implement Amnesty with Maras
>Works at first but falls apart quickly when Maras are found to still be killing people, only quietly
>Whole thing falls apart and government deal with a brutal backlash and shit goes down for several years.
>During the last presidential election, the election was so close that the ARENA party was video taped begging Maras representatives for their votes despite being the original sponsor of "Mano Dura" policy.

>Be Honduras
>Have a military coup in 2009
>Well shit, traffickers and maras have an awesome opportunity to cash in on political chaos
>Honduran politicians and businesses develop close ties with gangs and traffickers, even the current President was said to have taken bribes from the Cachiros.
>Human rights organizers killed left and right, government claims it was mostly gangs committing the killings.
>Things are still shit despite recent "improvements".

>Be Guatemala
>Be corrupt
>Elect a politically incorrect entertainer who is known for his crude humor, fart jokes and black face, and claims to be a political outsider and not corrupt or a thief.
>Turns out to have close connection to many retired military officers who may or may not have massacred a bunch of civilians during the Guatemalan civil war.
>Wants to make Guatemala great again and probably reclaim rightful Belize clay
>Turns out to be corrupt himself and is under investigation, along with other family members.

You forgot appealing to midwest Evangelicals as well as neoconservatives.

>what about...

The greatest Presidents of all time were Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.

Saddam Hussein was pretty nice too.

You can take the indio out of the bloodstained temple, but you can't take the bloodstained temple out of the indio

Pro-USSR, but it not even the fall itself, that was a disaster - it's the means to achieve it.
I'm sure USSR would implode without Reagan sucking cock of mujahideen and arabs.

And i'd rather deal with commies, than with durkas.

Boohoo, he at least brought our country back to its religious roots which is most important.

Name one great thing LBJ did, commie.

*enables the enslavement of blacks by Libyans*

>improved economy a lot
>after it initially faulted due to his fiscal policy
>and might have hurt middle class purchasing power in the process
>and set up the circumstances and political continuum that lead to the 2007 collapse (helped by all the preceding presidents to Bush jr).
>BTFO the soviet union
debatable, meanwhile in increased military spending a shit ton and pushed our deficit upwards while preaching economic conservatism
>united the American people
not an achievement, he's not widely beloved anymore

Assassinated that shitbag JFK

The Soviet Union BTFO itself.

>Improved the economy a lot
holding power when there's economic expansion doesn't mean you had anything to do with it. Back that statement with proof.

>back to its religious roots

What are you talking about? America society has never been more atheist

...

Buddy even if you were pro-UHC or a a tolerant Libertarian you'd still be a "right wing retard".
You need to know that they don't care about platform and will just insult whatever the corporatists tell them to.

He's a poster boy for conservatives because most of the planks of the modern GOP thrived under him: amoral corporate raiders, neocon militarists and religious zealots.

*invades you*

A lot Jesus Freaks actually hated Reagan while he was in office, especially for his choice in Surgeon General.

*imports drugs into Black communities to fund mass murders*

*admits to lying to americans but they don't care proving they are literally retarded*

Because they see (R) and that's it; most politics in this country is very tribal and people will throw away their morals if it means fucking over the other side hence fervent support of the Clintons (massive sexual predator + his complicit wife who would start small military conflicts for approval ratings boosts) or Obama (disastrous MENA bullshit, extrajudicial killing of Americans with drones even if said Americans deserved it) from progressives and the massive support Roy "Middle School is Cool" Moore on the moral holy rolling side.

I'm more on the right myself but boy oh boy do I hate Reagan and fervently believe that the right in this country is going to go nowhere until they exorcise Reagan's ghost from their psyche which basically means burning down the GOP.

*Sets up economy to become future oligarchy*

I've never agreed so much with a Republican before, and I was a Bernie Bro. We need to destroy both parties at this point desu..

Are you trying to tell me that drone strikes aren't hilarious?

>spend years of your life training to become a big bad soldier for allah
>die without ever seeing an American, much less killing one

The best description I've seen against NAFTA and it's something I like to use with more generally liberal people: it destroyed US manufacturing while destroying Mexican farms. Economic protectionism and strong border protection/immigration is one of those things that can and should transcend left/right boundaries but it's been because who benefits and who suffers is on full display but it's been so tightly (and successfully) wrapped up in racial terms that it's near impossible to break through.

Only faggots and communists hated Reagan. I bet you're both.

>money that stupid niggers used to buy poison finances the mass murder of spics who produce said poison that stupid niggers buy

It's like a real life example of a self-contained economy

Soon...

Didn't most of the "Reagan Republican" types hate Trump? There were endless screeds by Republican pundits and politicians raging throughout the primaries and election that Trump was betraying MUH SPIRIT OF REAGAN

IIRC even Reagan's son got in on the anti-Trump train

Reagan for all his faults was at least a classy man with experience in government.

By funding drug-smuggling, nun-killing death squads and allying with prosperity gospel conmen?

Pop culture would hate on any conservatist no matter what he would do anyway. It doesn't matter.
Trickle down economics doesn't exist as a theory but it didn't stop socialists from repeating this meme.

>one of the most Keynesian presidents in US history that raised taxes, racked up debt, and spent a huge portion of the GDP on millitary industry
>muh eebul gubbahment

Yes, killling Papists anywhere is a net positive to American religious life.

Reagan's son got in on the anti-Reagan train too

That happened because of Reagan obviously

he was ones of the first notable examples of a figurehead whose lieutenants did the real ruling

see also GW Bush

explain yourself

that system was tyrannical, nakedly so

I hope you don't mean to say the US needed them as a foil because that's just too convoluted

>until they exorcise Reagan's ghost from their psyche

user I may disagree with everything else you stand for, but I'd follow you to the gates of Hell if it meant making that one thing come true.

*proves that even a guy with dementia can be president*

>the 30 years war was great but it didn't go far enough!

t. historically ignorant protestant reactionary

secularism was the greatest gift we were ever given and only idiots who are blind to the past think otherwise

even a guy with a 2 and a half inch tall forehead can be president

>he was ones of the first notable examples of a figurehead whose lieutenants did the real ruling
*ahem*

Y-yeah... what weird proportions, right?!