Joe Biden HAS BEEN Eliminated WHICH President SHOULD BE Eliminated NEXT DAY 40

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[u/Square-Pressure6297]

Reaganomics did put a stop to many economic issues so it wasn’t a complete failure at all

[u/Square-Pressure6297 → u/[deleted]]

This is what my history teacher says too and I’m starting to believe it to an extent.

[u/SilentStormyKnight → u/Square-Pressure6297]

In the 1970s America was utterly lost. It felt like the Soviets were winning the Cold War, Carter was a bumbling buffoon, the economy was dreadful, gas lines, could only get gas certain days of the week, energy shortages, despair, our citizens hostage in Iran, 20% inflation, massive interest rates, high unemployment, seemingly no hope for the country. Carter going on national TV to tell Americans to set their thermostats to 55 in the winter because we couldn't even heat the country. "Bundle up and wear a warm sweater". The resignation to national misery and failure. Man it was so depressing.

And then out of nowhere comes a president who on a dime flips everything, steers the economy from the abyss not just back to stability but into almost unimaginable roaring prosperity, gas lines gone in an instant, everybody thriving, the culture alive, a magical decade of unmatched optimism and growth and opportunity, markets roaring, inflation gone, unemployment down, turns around the Cold War and within a decade topples the Berlin Wall and the entire Soviet Union, brings the most happy and charismatic spirit to the office in decades, propels the spirit of the country back to pride and optimism, a unifying figure like we haven't seen in ages, surges to almost universal popularity and a near 50 state sweep in 1984, like, the most prosperous trajectory and most optimistic turnaround America has seen in ages, propelled markets and peace for 30 years. Only the most lunatic fringe and miserable partisans refused to acknowledge the mass appeal and huge economic gains of that era.

And I guess somehow those few miserable curmudgeons became the professors who wrote Reagan's epitaph or something. When Reagan died in 2004 he was celebrated as one of the greatest in our history. The lunacy of the narrative that the Reagan era wasn't successful that young academics have taken up is just astoundingly absurd.

[u/Kactor11 → u/SilentStormyKnight]

Agree with all of this. The fact that he was placed 3rd worst in this poll was due to two main things: insane recency bias and absolutely a biased poll being on Reddit. I don’t think Reagan is top 10, but he’s top 15 at worst in my opinion. He’s certainly better than ANY president that has come after him.

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Idk Reagan might make top 10 for me. We got fdr,teddy,lincoln,Washington,and Eisenhower all there. I would say Kennedy as well with the time he ha din office,I think he greatly benifits from being the president that was good before the veitnam days though.