Reply #2: Reagan was extremely good at what he did. No two ways about it.

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He was a great front for a massive, irresponsible transfer of wealth to the wealthiest while saddling future generations of middle class people with the debt he created.

But in the same way that it was a good thing that FDR was president during WW2, it would have been nice if someone like Clinton had been president when Gorbachev was dismantling totalitarianism in the Soviet Union.