AIDS, Contra, destroyed our mental health system.
He did fairly well in his first term, but his second term was a train wreck. Taxing Social Security and selling arms to Iran to fund the Contras illegally. It ended up being one of the most corrupt administrations of the 20th century, and set the standard for criminal activity in government until the Trump regime plumbed new depths.
Thanks! I have no memory of Ronald Reagan. I didn't start paying attention to politics until Clinton was President.
He "did fairly well" in terms of getting his agenda enacted, but that agenda was a disaster whose aftereffects are still very much with us. Enormous deficits, "colorblind" domestic policies that devastated the inner cities, union busting, and the mainstreaming of viewpoints that were heretofore (correctly) recognized as extreme - not to mention doing absolutely nothing about AIDS in the crucial early years of the epidemic.
Yes and no. Reagan was just as much of a soulless charlatan as Trump, strictly out for himself, and if he were running today, he'd run on the same sort of things Trump is running on. He simply staked out positions as far to the right as were politically tenable at the time - and thanks to him, that window has shifted quite a bit since then.
I thought you wanted to talk about Presidential rankings. Did you want to talk about phone scams?
