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Originally posted by carnutzzz
Reagan was a genius.
Leave it to FastPat to minimize the accomplishments of the last of the great Presidents.
The arms race was at the heart of the cold war, and the eventual demise of the Soviet Union.
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No, that's a myth, sorry to question something as dear to you as that must be, but the Soviet Union was well on it's way to total economic collapse years before Reagan was elected. His policies were in fact counterproductive.
Reagan was not a good president; at best he was middling. His budget deficits were huge, he spent billions on completely unnecessary military boondoggles that are biting us in the ass still, and expanded the federal government well beyond what it was when he took office.
The last great president in the 20th century was Calvin Coolidge.