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You can say that about so many other deflection points in the recent past too. For instance if Nixon had been prosecuted and served time, Trump wouldn't be breaking laws with impunity and likely wouldn't be president. If SCOTUS hadn't stopped the recount in Florida, Gore would have won and Dubya would be a historical footnote instead of having caused of a war based on fraudulent evidence and then an economic crash. I can think of a half-dozen more off the top of my head. The GOP has been a disaster for this country for decades.
Don't forget reagan committed treason with the iranians twice. He did a deal with them that kept those hostages until he took office. Then he did Iran Contra which was nothing more than a attempt to destabilize Nicaragua.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation
Led to the destruction of public banking for individuals.
https://brendonbeebe.substack.com/p/did-reagan-defund-mental-healthor
Jimmy carter tried to fix it and reagon killed it out of spite.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine
Destroyed the media by allowing completely biased fake new like fox news.
https://www.economic-historian.com/p/reagans-neoliberal-policies
Started the rot of deregulation that has infested the entire economy to the point that there are no checks and balances stopping the corruption that has festered with trump. Trump is just a tool. He doesn't think he is but he nothing more than a tool.
Don't forget Trickle down Economics. What a joke.
There are other things that POS did but when you look at the start of our modern decline it start with reagan.
I don't know if this is just an oversight or I'm reading it wrong, but both Glass-Steagall and the Fairness Doctrine were arguably excellent pieces of legislation, and it was their repeal that acted against public interest.
I'd give anything to have them back, along with the repeal of EVERYTHING in law that says corporations = people, usually for the purpose of unfairly extending constitutional protections to them.
Reagan was against the public interest. His interference resulted in their repeal. Even with trump in the mix reagan is still the worst president we have ever had IMO. Trump couldn't exist except for that D list actor and the destruction he brought to this country.
The biggest was the assassination of RFK. Had he lived, he would have been elected, ended Vietnam early, and taken America in an entirely different direction.
Instead, we got Nixon, who took us down the Dark Right path that we're still on now.