• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    Yup. Ronnie Raygun left in total shame and disgrace, and was being Weekended At Bernies by the end, but the Collaborationist Media was eager to claim that America was “too tired” to go through something like Watergate again and moved on from Iran/Contra ASAP.

    Even without all the (record-setting) criminality of the Ronnie Raygun administration - objectively the worst on record - Ronnie Raygun and his “revolution” did damage that is still being played out on America.

    But the cons spent so much energy in the 90s on a few things: 1. Trying to retcon everything about the 80s and particularly Ronnie Raygun, and mounting efforts put his name/visage on everything possible, including Mt. Rushmore, and 2. Actively trying to divide America as much as possible - see Newt’s efforts in his GOPAC and attack Clinton, spread emails like the Body Count email, and generally queen the fuck out about him and Hillary as if they were some kind of far-left vanguard of the Sixties Generation coming to DC to bring about Marxism in the USA.