Trump exploited a huge lie about a free & fair election as being rigged without a single shred of proof, misled his people to attack the Capital based on a lie and ruined the lives of men and women now doing federal time on his lie just because he didn't want to look like a loser.
When Trump was president he again misled the American people about the seriousness of COVID when he was informed of the threat, his delay in action and response led to thousands of Americans dying. But he made sure that his pal Putin got COVID testing kits when Americans were scrambling to find them. I won't get into the amount of scandals the Trump administration faced in/out of office too numerous, and too tedious.
On this ^^^, we do agree.
I agree with all of your criticisms but I think you are not being objective in your scaling. Reagan's and GWB Jr.'s decisions were way more catastrophic and radioactive than Trump's.
Reagan shit the bed with the War on Drugs, Reaganomics, the AIDS crisis and his ghoulish foreign policy. All of them have deadly implications that we are still seeing plague America to this day. I know that Nixon formally started the War on Drugs but it eased up under Carter and Reagan brought it back into the spotlight. He prioritized punishment over rehabilitation (not very Christian imo) by setting up cruel minimum sentences and stripping funding from rehab facilities. The alleged goal of the War on Drugs was to reduce drug usage and there hasn't been any evidence up to now that indicates that it succeeded in doing so.
While incarceration is offered as a tool that helps reduce drug use, there is little evidence to suggest that locking people up reduces drug consumption in the long-term. Since 1980, despite the significant increase in incarceration rates, studies have found no statistically significant correlation between drug imprisonment rates and the rate of drug use across most states.
There was also some stuff floating around about the Reagan admin planting drugs in black communities and what not. I'd be lying if I said I looked deeply into it. But, it is consensus during the Nicaraguan civil war in the 80s, the CIA teamed up with the Contras to smuggle cocaine.
For the better part of a decade, a San Francisco Bay Area drug ring sold tons of cocaine to the Crips and Bloods street gangs of Los Angeles and funneled millions in drug profits to a Latin American guerrilla army run by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. This drug network opened the first pipeline between Colombia's cocaine cartels and the black neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The cocaine that flooded in helped spark a crack explosion in urban America… and provided the cash and connections needed for L.A.'s gangs to buy automatic weapons
Also a lot of Reagan+Nixon's drug meddling overseas is partially responsible for the migrant crisis today. A good portion of the Asylum Seekers are from those destabilized countries that they meddled in.
To keep it brief, Reaganomics involved a lot of corporate deregulation/tax breaks and anti-union rhetoric. This lead to excaberated income equality and hindered economic mobility which devastated the middle class. The expectation was that the wealth would "trickle down". But, it didn't and you can see it carrying over to this day.
Also, Reagan didn't give a shit about the AIDS epidemic until his buddy,Hudson,died from it.. He didn't even bother to acknowledge it for 4 yrs and he added more salt to the wounds by pulling out funding for finding resolutions for the epidemic. I mean even Fidel Castro was more concerned about AIDS and the gay community than Reagan....And that man is not a saint by any means.....
Mr. Castro replied: “I think it will be the epidemic of this century. And it’s your responsibility, Gustavo, to stop it becoming a major problem here.”
This was two years before any American president publicly uttered the word “AIDS.
Cuba’s success in limiting the epidemic stems partly from harsh early tactics and universal basic health care.
www.nytimes.com
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Lastly, Reagan's foreign policy has a lot
- Played a role in the formation of Al-Queda
Earlier this week, I cited recently declassified documents to show that Ronald Reagan did indeed play a major role in ending the Cold War. Now it's...
slate.com
- Utilized Iranian Hostage Situation to win an election
Suspicions have long swirled around unscrupulous campaign manager William Casey. We believe the evidence is now overwhelming.
newrepublic.com
- Cozied up with the Apartheid South African Govt. and accused Nelson Mandela of being a terrorist....Like jesus christ, Mandela is a hero to literally everyone.
Ronald Reagan saw the great statesman as an enemy bent on spreading communism, and Margaret Thatcher said he had "a closed mind" in newly released documents.
www.biography.com
- Betrayed congress by smuggling arms into Iran/Contra despite there being an embargo
Iran-Contra Affair - The Levin Center Portraits in Oversight provide a historical walk through crucial Congressional investigations.
levin-center.org
Honestly with GWB Jr., the war on terror is probably the biggest fuck up in our nation's history. It is practically impossible to top, no amount of economic fuck ups are as much of a travesty as that imo. So yeah, Trump is a crock of shit but he was in no way shape or form (atleast up to now) as bad as GWB Jr. and Reagan as President.
This might be my longest post on this site.....Hope it wasn't too much.
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