...The current Republicans give a rat's banana about facts, economics, and his opinion. Reagan's name is a talisman, and they'll wave it around whenever they goddamn please, thank you very much. And the Republican base cheers, whereas they'll treat you as a traitor if you get in their faces about this. Stick to your books and op-eds, and they might give you a pass because St. Ron's name gets mentioned every time you are introduced.
You also forget your policy was a justification, not a cure, right? You admit that the Fed did the heavy lifting of getting inflation down, so you amount to cheer leading "it would have been worse" without Reagan's policies. And that, sir, is a pile of horseshit. Reaganomics ushered in an era of looting the middle class. Those lower high-end taxes made it easier to make big money fast, which rewarded speculation and financial wheeling and dealing to fatten accounts and call it "making money" than investment in the real economy. It certainly made it easier to pull off the sort of merger mania and corporate raiding that took place immediately afterward, since the old owners could cash out without sending a massive chunk to Uncle Sam. So the "benefits" didn't exactly trickle down as your theory predicted.
He current clowns are your kids. If you don't like how they turned out, stop grumbling that they didn't learn your lessons well enough. They actually did.
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