I have seen this sentiment echoed here many times before, and every time the claimant manages to spell Richard Nixon wrong.
Almost every misstep and national ill you can pin on the Republicans that Reagan popularized, Nixon actually started. He was the original ratfucker. In fact, it was his people who coined the term.
It's kind of that Nixon walked so that Reagan could run. The southern strategy put the Republican party on the path to eliminating all traces of being the party of Lincoln, but he also did some good things like creating the EPA. Reagan's tenure pretty much had no redeeming qualities. Except, I guess, the vibes were pretty good, from what I hear.
My friend and I have an ongoing debate about whether he or Nixon were the crux of the problem.
My opinion is that while Nixon may have started the car, Reagan shifted it into drive, the a brick on the gas pedal, and let it go right off the edge of the cliff.
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dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 233d
I have seen this sentiment echoed here many times before, and every time the claimant manages to spell Richard Nixon wrong.
Almost every misstep and national ill you can pin on the Republicans that Reagan popularized, Nixon actually started. He was the original ratfucker. In fact, it was his people who coined the term.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 233d
It's kind of that Nixon walked so that Reagan could run. The southern strategy put the Republican party on the path to eliminating all traces of being the party of Lincoln, but he also did some good things like creating the EPA. Reagan's tenure pretty much had no redeeming qualities. Except, I guess, the vibes were pretty good, from what I hear.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 233d
J E L L Y B E A N S
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 233d
Not unlike how the incremental fascism of Bush, Clinton, Dubya, Obama, Donald I, then Biden gave us the Gestapo president we have now.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 233d
I think Reagan reducing the top tax rate had the biggest impact.
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 233d
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1b46r
Etterra@discuss.online · 10 pts · 233d
My friend and I have an ongoing debate about whether he or Nixon were the crux of the problem.
My opinion is that while Nixon may have started the car, Reagan shifted it into drive, the a brick on the gas pedal, and let it go right off the edge of the cliff.
Tanoh@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 233d
The x axis should be time, and the y axis should be "some metric"
Also: https://xkcd.com/833/
etherphon@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 233d
First there was Ronald McDonald, then Ronald, and now Donald. The three horsemen of the apocalypse, Ronald, Ronald, and Donald.
human@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 233d
And my other brother Donald
galaxy_nova@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 233d
This graph really pains me visually.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works · -1 pts · 233d
Whoa, things really go bad when we transition from adding numbers up to instead using the metric system
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · -1 pts · 233d
What about CEO pay? Checkmate.
I am very smart.
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 7 pts · 233d
That’s the red line