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LeftinOH

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9. Reagan's 1st term was a shit-show: Recession; inflation; high unemployment;
Fri Feb 9, 2024, 12:09 PM
Feb 2024

and there's more: The clumsy, ill-planned "peacekeeping" mission in Lebanon which resulted in the massacre of over 250 US Marines; the mass-firing of American air traffic controllers and the forced dissolution of PATCO (their union); the creepy dystopian black & white 'generic' food aisles that appeared overnight in grocery stores (not political, but a desperate market reaction to the economy). And then there's the AIDS crisis - which the administration didn't even acknowledge until late in Reagan's 2nd term.

Imagine if all that happened under Biden....

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