2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who has been the WORST President of YOUR lifetime? And Why? [View all]Aristus
(68,997 posts)Because if Reagan had never attained the White House, George W. Bush today would be a drunken, possibly divorced, one-time failed congressional candidate and ne'er-do-well son of the CIA chief and nothing else, spending his empty days in dive bars drinking Coors Lights by the dozen, and muttering to himself.
Reagan set the stage for the exercise in stupidity, provincialism, reflexive militarism and mean-spirited blockheadedness that serves as the ideal of Republican presidential governance.
Reagan was the Ur-Dubyah. He grinningly proclaimed that government was the problem, and then spent the rest of his fuzzbrained, astrology-guided life proving it.
When Reagan finally rid the Earth of his Depends-wearing presence, no doubt to get away from that hatchet-faced, empty headed hag he inexplicably gave up Jane Wyman for, and slid down the greased-chute to the Hell he so richly deserved, he no doubt had Satan tsk-tsk-ing over the sudden precipitous drop in the quality of his new recruits.
Reagan was not simply the worst President in American history; he was, quite possibly, the worst human being ever, and is currently battling it out with Caligula, Gilles De Rais, and Joseph Stalin over who gets the trophy.
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