Don't be so hasty about Ronald Reagan

February 21, 2025

“They are not the same people as on whose behalf Ronald Reagan, 40 years ago, celebrated the fact that ‘Americans courageously supported the struggle for liberty, self-government, and free enterprise throughout the world, and turned the tide of history away from totalitarian darkness and into the warm sunlight of human freedom’.”

I’m really not sure about this particular bit of saintliness. Reagan was well in the grip of neoliberal big business. High profits, low wages, kill the opposition. Whatever lofty words he might have said, Reagan was leading the US down the path that has given us Trump.

Read all about it in “The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America” by William Kleinknecht. (ISBN 9781568584423, c.2009) You’ll soon see the link… if it doesn’t reach out and grab you first.