Opinion of Ronald Reagan

[Lechasseur]

Ehhh. Undecided.

Yeah I'm actually going to say HP, despite being an FF geopolitically.

How come?

At anyrate for me he had some flaws but overall FF

[Lechasseur]

FF, and the best president since WWII (not a hack).

You could easily make a case for Truman, Eisenhower, or LBJ.

I'm nowhere close to a hack and I think Reagan's policies in general were bad. "But the economy grew" is nothing but a trains-run-on-time argument.

I'd have a much higher opinion of him if not for the War on Drugs, the AIDS epidemic, arming the contras and mujahideen, supporting any dictator/group so-long as they were anti-communist, bad financial policies without oversight, etc.

His support of anti-communist dictators was not that exceptional compared to most of his predecessors.  Truman and Eisenhower both supported intervention to remove Mosaddeq in Iran, Kennedy and Johnson both propped up Forbes Burnham in Guyana, and Nixon supported the coup against Allende in Chile.

LBJ was not the best president since WWII by any measure.  He sent us to war in Vietnam on false pretenses, then lied about how the war was going; the Great Society failed massively, and only passed civil rights legislation to shore up his black support, not because he actually believed in it.

True

[Lechasseur]

Overrated.

Agreed. There were some good things and some bad things about him, but he wasn't ''the best president'' ever like a lot of Republicans think he was.