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No Fault Divorce was going to happen one way or another as part of the sexual revolution. JFK killed the asylum systems, not Reagan. The government debt cycle is a continuation of Keynsian economic policy, that you can put on FDR. The US was close to Iraq before he took office. The US's relationship with the Shaw of Iran goes back to the 50's, and the fight against the ayatollahs is one he inherited. And, like I said, the amnesty was supposed to be the first step in ending the immigration crisis that existed at the time.
No, that's Richard Nixon.
Hypothetical revisionism
JFK started the process, Carter tried reversing some of it, and Reagan killed it outright in an omnibus bill.
And Reagan was still the first to set precedent by tripling the national debt during his tenure. It was the single largest increase in debt under one president at the time.
It’s also one he made irreparably worse and fueled the Iranian hatred of America when we were killing 20k Iranians with chemical weapons through Saddam.
The illegal migration crisis, he mass imported “legal” Hispanics and Asians and oversaw the first decline of white European immigrants.
It's not hypothetical revisionism, it's the reality of the culture on the ground. You're worried about one state passing a marriage law as if it was the cause to everything else. The Sexual Revolution was far broader than that.
JFK did permanent damage and built the system we have today.
I don't think your national debt stat is right. Normally, I would just assume that the largest increases in National debt would have been the Louisiana Purchase, the American Civil War, WW1, and WW2.
This chart only goes back to the 30's, so we can't see the first 3, but it does cover WW2. The biggest jump is a 90% increase in 1942-1943, which is what I would expect. I don't think the national debt increases by 50% in any one year from 1980-1990.
Obviously, Roosevelt is terrible here at debt increase, so from 1933-1946, the national debt increased by 10,000%. From 1981-1989, it's a 186% increase. I think that might be lower than Bush and Obama. The Louisiana Purchase, Civil War, and WW1 are extremely bad amounts of spending. Just doing a quick search, the Treasury department websites said the debt increased by twenty times in WW1, so, not sure how that lines up with Woodrow Wilson's presidency, but it's gonna be bad. And the Civil War national debt jumped FOURTY times, which, by the looks of it, would make Abraham Lincoln the winner by a mile. Even FDR didn't increase spending that much.
I'd put the chemical weapons stuff on Bush more than Reagan again, but even more so, the Iranians had no like of us because of our relationship with the Shaw. It was already irreparable.
Again, the "legal" migration crisis was supposed to be ended. We can also see that it was argued that there would be no ethnographic change to the US because it was the first step in solving the migration situation.
The largest state and the one that dominated cultural influence at that time and for decades after.
And Reagan was complicit the entire time from governor to president. He also gave the death blow.
Maybe I should have been more specific, debt we never paid off or intended to pay off. We went from a debt of 116% gdp in 1946 to 24% in 1974. Reagan took it from 30% during a recession and left it at 56% Bush 1 took it from 56-65%, Clinton from 65%-56%, W from 56-84%, Obama from 84-102%, Trump from 102-124% but that was mostly covid.
The chemical weapons all happened under Reagan.
Which is a lie, Reagan started H2A visas and Bush 1 implemented H1Bs. They are the same ilk.