Do you remember how the libs reacted when Reagan said the Soviet Union would end up on the Ash Heap of history?
Do you remember how certain they were about how he was stupid and reckless and dangerous?
DO you remember how dishonest they were when history proved Reagan Right and them WRONG?
Why should I think this time is any different?
Then you should be able to provide links to all the "libs" that laughed at Reagan.
It's not just "libs" that think Trump is unhinged, an embarrassment and should not be trusted with the Nuclear codes...it's the world.
If you are really doubting the bti about them laughing at him, I'm sure I can dig up some examples, though it might be hard to find a lot since this predates the internet and is not they type of thing a lot of people want to document.
And yes, it is just libs.
That the rest of the world is dominated by libs, is to their shame, but it is still just libs, and any fools silly enough to listen to them.
12/25/91: Reagan, the Soviets, & the Ash-Heap of History - Providence
"Almost no one saw it coming. Conventional liberal wisdom was that the United States and the Soviet Union had equally flawed political systems. They must work to “converge” and compromise for the sake of world peace. “Each superpower has economic troubles,” announced historian Arthur Schlesinger after a 1982 trip to Moscow. “Neither is on the ropes.” MIT economist Lester Thurow called it “a vulgar mistake to think that most people in Eastern Europe are miserable.” The intelligentsia concluded that Reagan’s prediction of Soviet decline was pure fantasy. Columbia University’s Seweryn Bialer insisted in 1982 that “the Soviet Union is not now nor will be during the next decade in the throes of a true system crisis, for it boasts enormous unused reserves of political and social stability that suffice to endure the deepest difficulties.”
After Reagan’s Westminster speech, historian Robert F. Byrnes collected essays from thirty-five experts on the Soviet Union—the cream of American academia—in a book titled
After Brezhnev. Their conclusion: any thought of winning the Cold War was a pipe dream. “The Soviet Union is going to remain a stable state, with a very stable, conservative, immobile government,” Byrnes said in an interview. “We don’t see any collapse or weakening of the Soviet system.” As late as 1984, Harvard’s John Kenneth Galbraith echoed the mood of moral equivalency. “The Russian system succeeds because, in contrast to the Western industrial economies, it makes full use of its manpower.”
Well, now. Rarely in the field of human prognostication have so many self-appointed experts been so wrong about so much. It turns out that Ronald Reagan was not the naïve, warmongering ideologue of liberal imagination. Instead, the American president—who believed deeply in American exceptionalism—developed a coherent and plausible strategy to actually defeat the Soviet Union. Lou Cannon, the
Washington Postreporter who covered the Reagan administration, later admitted: “the Westminster speech stands the test of time as the most farsighted and encompassing of Reagan’s anti-communist messages.” "