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DerekB52 t1_ivscm8z wrote

Reply to comment by SpaciousTables in TIL In 1983, Air Force One (with Reagan aboard) landed six minutes before a microburst slammed into the ground at Andrews Air Force Base, causing wind speeds to hit 149 mph. At the time, that was the fastest wind speed ever measured by an anemometer. by theotherbogart

Idk, Bush called Reagan's infamously bad fiscal policy "voodoo economics". I think I'd take Bush over Reagan. Bush was bad, but I still believe Reagan had the most damaging presidency in US history. I think without Reagan, you never get Trump.

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Alan_Smithee_ t1_ivsichm wrote

Nixon.

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Weird_Cantaloupe2757 t1_ivt1d3a wrote

Yeah Reagan was just Nixon in a more appealing package. Nixon went too hard and too fast, and people weren’t ready to just accept it yet. Reagan put a nicer face on it so it was accepted, the W made it more flagrant without pushback, and then Trump came along and just ripped the mask off completely and out-Nixoned Nixon, but this time, the asshole brigade had such a committed fanbase that none of it mattered.

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BigCommieMachine t1_ivtchso wrote

Nixon expanded welfare, proposed Obamacare in 1971, and made incredible progress in protecting the environment. Reagan burnt it down.

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Hot_Marionberry_4685 t1_ivumjgc wrote

For real people say Nixon was so bad but like by modern American government standards he was practically a liberal. If it wasn’t for the war on drugs and the watergate scandal he’d be one of the better presidents throughout history like the dude had his faults but everyone just hangs on to how the media paints him without knowing anything about his actual policies.

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Alan_Smithee_ t1_ivttwwb wrote

Let’s not forget that Nixon was a crook.

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BigCommieMachine t1_ivu4h9y wrote

If Henry Kissinger wasn’t around and he didn’t launch the War On Drugs, I could tolerate Nixon crookedness.

I mean the Kissinger thing is huge. He escaped the Nazis….only to commit genocide himself. I mean the QAnon folks should be looking at him if anyone. I don’t see how that man isn’t a lich or something surviving on the blood of virgins he killed in war crimes.

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Alan_Smithee_ t1_ivu4oiu wrote

Let me guess, you’re a Republican?

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BigCommieMachine t1_ivu5fsd wrote

Look at my username.

I like baseball and communism. The 1970’s Cincinnati Reds were the “Big Red Machine”. Communists are also know as Reds. Hence BigCommieMachine.

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WinoWithAKnife t1_ivta3ty wrote

Pretty hard to argue against Jackson, who did his damnedest to undo Reconstruction

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DerekB52 t1_ivu3vds wrote

I guess that's fair. I would argue for Reagan, but that could be recency bias. It's hard for me to objectively judge a presidency from so long ago.

I don't think you can make the case for anyone worse than Reagan from WWII on though.

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sonvoltman t1_ivsrrnd wrote

that was the start of killing us softly

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