Simple poll: who was worse, Ronald Reagan or George W Bush?

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27. I agree.

Reagan was insidiously (I say "insidiously" because too many Dems for too long could not see what was happening) detrimental in destroying social safety nets, breaking up unions, enabling the income inequality situation we now have and putting budding neocon monsters in place who were then able to move into full flower under Bush II. Yes, indeed, he set the stage, but Bush II jumped in with both feet!

Bush II, together with his merry band of neocon warmongers, who "presided" over two of the worst disasters ever to occur on US soil - (9-11) and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, who allowed radical RW Xtians to pack the DOJ and other USG agencies and courts, who fecklessly led the US into two disastrous wars - at least one of which was illegal by any accepted international norm, whose administration condoned torture and rendition, and whose unfettered incompetence, selfishness and greed enabled the worst global financial disaster since the Great Depression, is probably the worst US President to date. Hopefully, he will remain as the bottom to which we never again descend.

Still - I find it too difficult to choose between them. We could not have had the same sort of debacle under Bush II without Reagan. In fact, Bush II sans Cheney and Rove might have been more like Daddy Bush, who was also awful, IMO. But he might not have bungled foreign affairs at least quite so badly. So for that, I can never - ever - forgive Reagan.