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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Replying to @DavidKlion
The real galaxy brain take is that a lot of what was worst about Reagan started with Carter.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @DavidKlion
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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If you look carefully at the period where he had early-stage Alzheimer's, he accidentally saved the world by turning his back on his entire approach to foreign policy
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Replying to @DavidKlion @HistoryNed and
I've been reading a little neocon syllabus I made for myself and it will always be funny that they got really excited about Reagan, sacrificed their dignity on Iran-Contra, and then ended up hating Reagan when he boxed them out to end the Cold War—a victory they later claimed.
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Bacevich is very good on this.
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