This is a research paper that I wrote for my US History class, but I think that it is somewhat relevant to what is going on right now. Conservatives still tout Reagan as being "God-like," and the need still exists to tell them, "no." Tell me what you think.
Ronald Wilson Reagan is, at once, a deity to conservatives and Satan to liberals. He was the fortieth President of the United States and is arguably the most divisive modern political figure. Conservatives tout his accomplishments as leading to a new “Pax Americana”—they point to what they see as the ending of the Cold War due to Reagan’s diplomacy, and believe that Reagan’s fiscal and economic policies led to a renewed American economy. According to conservatives, Reaganomics—which represent a sharp turn from the government’s fiscal policies of the previous forty years before Reagan—is probably the best economic program in American history. They contend that these policies improved living conditions for all Americans and brought the economy out of the stagflation and recession of the 1970s and early 1980s. Upon thorough examination, however, it is clear that Reaganomics was actually detrimental to the United States, and even ultimately led to the severe late 2000s recession.
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