Jesse Ventura, American Badass

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Originally Posted by bryantm3

Reagan knew that the USSR would eventually collapse, but his actions sped up the conclusion of communism across Europe.

Reagan was senile for a significant portion of his administration. There are documented occasions where his diary said he had a pleasant dinner with so-and-so when the white house logs showed that no one had even visited that night.

His "masterful strategy" and his "single handedly" bringing down the communists is the biggest farce of an assertion in the history of politics. The soviet union was DOA before Reagan got elected based on 60 years of their own undoing.

Kid Rock could have been president and the Soviet Union would have still gone down. And maybe without causing the inflation and recession that followed in the early 90's from the deficit spending. Nor causing the seeds of hostility from the actions of our own "good-guy" empire across the globe, that wasn't really an empire because we got to use the domino theory excuse for our hostilities.

That being said, he did vastly simplify the tax code.