Yes, even as a kid I remember news alternating between showing him as a mean right-wing Republican who hates poor people, and a doddering old fool. It wasn't nearly as bad as with Trump, and the neolib establishment has softened on him now. Leftists (communists) still hate him. I remember talking with a lefty younger co-worker about how Reagan's legacy looks better now and he said "no he was still a shitty president with trickle down economics."
Reagan was controversial? Dude is the epitome of the milquetoast neo-con.
Yes, even as a kid I remember news alternating between showing him as a mean right-wing Republican who hates poor people, and a doddering old fool. It wasn't nearly as bad as with Trump, and the neolib establishment has softened on him now. Leftists (communists) still hate him. I remember talking with a lefty younger co-worker about how Reagan's legacy looks better now and he said "no he was still a shitty president with trickle down economics."
Reading Thomas Sowell go over the media spin against him in 1984 is fucking insane. It's all the same shit they say about Trump.
Which also happens to be all the same shit they said about Goldwater.
It's all the same shit.