Pernicious Legacy 0
Cynthia Tucker explains the damage done by Ronald Reagan. A nugget:
That has led to our present dilemma — one in which the United States is nearly ungovernable. American voters are more dependent on government than ever. Just try reducing the size of Medicare or Social Security or agricultural subsidies. (Reagan didn’t actually reduce the size of government; he didn’t even try. See chart below.) But they stubbornly resist the idea of raising revenue to cover those programs — because that would feed government!
Some voters are so philosophically opposed to government that they simply block out the idea that programs they love, such as Medicare, are government programs. (Reagan opposed the creation of Medicare, by the way, insisting that it would lead to “socialism.)
