1) Ronald Reagan
2) Teddy Roosevelt
3) Franklin Roosevelt
4) Lyndon Johnson
5) Bill Clinton
What on Earth did Reagan do to warrant being the "best President", especially considering your populist leanings that have very little to do with Reagan's ideology?
I just like everything (or most everything) Reagan stood for. I like his character, his dismantling of the Soviet Union, his conservatism and reviving the Republican party (of which I still share some issues) and his overall likeability. He was the right person to bring us out of the Vietnam era, which ended just 6 years before he took office, and into the modern era.
BTW, Bush 41 would probably rank in my top 15 of good presidents thanks to his continuation of Reagan-era policies and served as a nice place holder between two great eras, the Reagan era and the Clinton era.
I don't think it's fair to give Reagan that much credit for "dismantling" the Soviet Union....although his spending certainly played a role.
It's understandable you like his character....but I still find it interesting that you liked "what he stood for", considering that his extremely liberal economic policies are exactly what you oppose these days.
But who am I to judge....
The funny thing about Reagan is that his character and his politics have almost nothing in common. The truth is Reagan rarely attended church, barely knew a lot of his family, didn't serve, was divorced and was friends with a lot of.. colorful actors (even ignoring Hudson). Honestly I think a lot of his social conservatism after the '70s was mostly just an act.
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