Why does everyone love Reagan so much?

[BoberFett]

Liberals don't take kindly to traitors and war criminals. Conservatives embrace them as family.

Well I guess that would explain all the left wing hate for FDR...

 

[nickqt]

Well I guess that would explain all the left wing hate for FDR...

Yes, FDR was a trader because librul.

 

[ivwshane]

People love Reagan because he was the only president in the last 50 years that wasn't a douche.

Really? He seemed pretty douchey to me.

 

[Jhhnn]

Carter wasn't a douche. He was a good guy. That's also why he was a bad president.

In terms of the economy, Carter was a little like Obama- The guy who drove into town right behind the tornado & immediately assigned the job of fixing the place up. Parts of it were still falling down when he arrived.

He made a critical foreign policy mistake by allowing the deposed Shah to enter the US for medical treatment. It inflamed Iranian revolutionaries, led to the hostage crisis.

There was the whole trumped up "scandal" around Bert Lance. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan didn't help.

That stuff & Volcker denied him a second term.

 

[Jhhnn]

Well I guess that would explain all the left wing hate for FDR...

You're confused. At the time, he was derided as a "Traitor to his Class" which was certainly true.

OTOH, without FDR, they might have ended up in re-education camps.

 

[BoberFett]

You're confused. At the time, he was derided as a "Traitor to his Class" which was certainly true.

OTOH, without FDR, they might have ended up in re-education camps.

/facepalm

No you old feeb, YOU'RE confused.

 

[Atreus21]

Yes, FDR was a trader because librul.

He was such a great trader.

 

[nickqt]

He was such a great trader.

By spelled two words incorrectly there. You can take another crack at it after you've had a chance to rest a little bit.

 

[hal2kilo]

And somehow couldn't recall any of it. Congress was very kind to him at the time & let him slide. Several of his minions were convicted, never rolled over, never did any time & were either the recipients of favorable technicalities or ultimately pardoned by GHWB, iirc.

One of them, John Poindexter, did a brief stint for the GWB Admin to help set up this lovely program-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office

Ollie North is a celebrity on the Right, of course, the same folks who are always ready to cheer for law & order. It's airtight compartmentalization, that's for sure.

I/A rules are making my job a living hell!!! That A-hole!