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His presidency was probably the single biggest inflection point in this country's history in the last 50 years, second only to 911.
Shame that JHJr wasn't a better shot.
Having been around during 9/11, Reagan was a bigger inflection point. He was directly responsible for ramping up the arming of the groups that would go on to form al Qaeda. But, that's a small contribution compared to overseeing the decoupling of productivity from pay and his war on labor.
Yeah he did more damage, IMO, than can be literally calculated.
Eh. I tend to view him as a symptom, not the disease itself.
Better he died more obviously brain-rotted and feeble than martyrd after he did all the damage anyways.
Just because it's not the underlying cancer, a tumor will still kill you. Had he croaked earlier, he might have caused a lot less damage to the US and by extension the world that it's not given premature Bush Sr would.
Do you really think anything would be different with an early HW Bush administration?
1000% yes.
Reagan was shot only about a year into his 8 years in office. If he was taken out then and Bush Sr stepped up, then the total reign of that awful administration would have been many, many years less. Plus Bush didn't even come close to having the same pull as Reagan. Reagan was charismatic. He was a POS, but he knew how to talk to people and get them to agree with him - he was an actor for Pete's sake, so he had all the "soft skills" to connect with both Republicans and Democrats. Bush Sr was nothing like that. He was just another "generic" politician who couldn't even get reelected.
Our country would be vastly different today if JH Jr was a better shot.