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My dog would be better than Trump. He’s US-born and 78 in dog years. Is there anything in the Constitution that specifically requires a Homo sapiens?

Taxes fact check:
http://www.heritage.org/taxes/commentary/reagans-tax-cutting-legacy

Defense fact check:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bal-te.pentagon08jun08-story.html

Which, of course, is one of the things he accused Clinton of and said he was running against.

Whatever it was that Reagan achieved, the current administration has openly and proudly abandoned it and is openly replacing it with a pay for play system for despots.

I wouldn’t expect Bob Gates to have any other opinion.

I don’t actually think she’d be a good president. As Yakaru says, she’s made a lot of woo popular amongst other stuff. It’s the principle that’s perhaps worth considering.

However, she’d be better than Trump.

The US military was not weak before Reagan came along. Russians need someone to blame for the weakening of their country. The perception of Russians has been managed to enable the blame for any failure to be placed wherever a leader chooses. Currently, most Russians think Putin is a successful leader despite the fact he is destroying his country’s economy while simultaneously hoarding huge wealth for himself.

And like many USians, you believe the myth that Reagan reduced taxes. Check again. Further, check the history of your economy in relation to taxes. The economy has succeeded more often when they have been raised, especially on the wealthy.

“After the fall of the Berlin Wall, many people remembered having had views similar to Reagan’s about the vulnerability of the Soviet Union. But Reagan, as Robert Gates wrote in his 1996 memoir From the Shadows, ‘nearly alone truly believed in 1981 that the Soviet system was vulnerable not in some vague, long-range historical sense, but right then.’…

“…To put the case in the simplest possible terms, the Soviet Union didn’t fall; it was pushed. The push that Gorbachev gave it was the proximate cause, but it reflected pressure that Reagan began to apply four years before Gorbachev came to power… [Reagan’s push] was intended to produce the outcome that followed, [an outcome that Reagan] was nearly alone in thinking possible.”

https://jrbenjamin.com/2016/02/29/appraising-reagan/