One of my quiet longstanding takes is that this country can never move forward until Reagan is generally understood to be one of our most destructive presidents.https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1317096684288155653 …
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I mean, that’s basically scholarly consensus at this point.
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My MA involved a US history class at the peak of the Reagan revisionism era in 2006 where the main pitch was "if you look carefully at his anti-nuclear stuff with Gorby and some select parts of his diaries, he's a very thoughtful world leader"
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What is this argument?
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That Carter kicked off the wave of deregulation that Reagan expanded. See, e.g., this commentary about financial deregulation: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/06/the-good-paul-krugman-and-the-bad-paul-krugman/18718/ …
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Well go on I'm listening
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People forget that Carter was the first real vocal Evangelical Christian to be President, at least in the modern era.
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The precursor to the "what was worst about Trump started with Obama" take. Wrong on both counts.
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Reaganland by Rick Perlstein spends a lot of time on Carter
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Heer, only in your twisted imagination.
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