Since today marks the 100th birthday of the Dark Lord (aka Ronald Reagan), I figured I would take the time to set the record straight on his legacy and help my fellow liberals/leftists/progressives challenge contemporary Reagan hagiography. It goes without saying that Reagan's presidency was a watershed time in American history and politics, but those on the right (with their enablers in the current American media) have it wrong. Reagan did preside over the end of the Cold War anymore than he oversaw great economic growth, for example. While I will spare the readers a laundry list of how the right (and by extension, the American people) view Reagan, I do want to focus on four areas that I find very important.
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