I don't doubt that he, and you, support Ronald Reagan. Throwing integrity to the wind, his administration armed and training terrorists, blurred the lines between religion and politics, supported corrupt bailouts of the Savings and Loans, disgracing our country before the international world court, and championed the corruption of the military/industrial complex. People like Ronald Reagan epitomize the decay in American politics of the last 30 years.
Without a shadow of a doubt I believe that you long for the corruption of the Reagan administration.
I have often stated that Reagan did two major things right in his time in office: he won the Cold War, and he restored the military's morale from its post-Vietnam funk (yeah, that is what he did). Oh, and there was the Reagan amnesty for illegals. Other than those things, Reagan did not do much that was right. As I said, his economic policy was a disaster. There's Iran-Contra. There's his dog-whistle politics reaching out to Southern racists (his states-rights speech in Philadelphia, MS).
But you know what? I still hold him as one of the five best presidents ever. Why? Because he won the Cold War without it turning hot. The Cold War was
without exception the most dangerous time in all human history...and he got us through it to the point where the USSR was falling apart by the time he left office...and regardless of what you may think, the one in charge gets all the blame and all the credit for what happens on his watch. That's why Reagan, for all the crappiness of his presidency, gets the credit for winning the Cold War...
...and it is for that reason and that reason
alone I hold him as one of our five best presidents ever, because he got us through the most dangerous time in human history without it turning into a global thermonuclear exchange. Other than that, he was not a good president by any means. So do NOT claim that I somehow "long for the corruption of the Reagan administration" - I don't. I left the GOP
because of Iran-Contra, because of the rise of the right-wing pundits and the Religious Right that had become kingmakers within the GOP. I left
because of the corruption that I saw in the GOP.
So stop assuming, willya? Instead, consider that maybe, just maybe people might not be wrong if they have opinions that aren't the same as yours.