2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Who has been the WORST President of YOUR lifetime? And Why? [View all]MBS
(9,688 posts)As a friend once wrote, "Reagan and W are bookends of an era". Reagan (and the voters who voted for him, TWICE) started it all, but W (and the voters who voted for him TWICE, leaving aside for the moment the fact that both elections were stolen) was the horrible, damaging (not to mention globally embarrassing) consequence of decades of Reaganism's stupidity, shortsightedness, proud ignorance and greed.
Nixon (who was my dad's Enemy #1) is equally horrible, the only difference being that there were more people opposing him when he was president, and a Democratic congress to fight back, when he was president. Nixon did a lot of damage, but not everyone had drunk the Kool Aid at that point. It's a mark of the horrors of the Reagan and W presidencies (and, again, the voters and the Supreme Court, that made their presidencies possible) that we have had to endure presidents even worse than Nixon.
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