Sounds to me like many of you are ignorant about a lot.
One, how politics works in this country.
Two, the Reagan objectives and the reality of the cold war in the 80s, along with the rising tide of islamic terrorism.
The fact is Reagan would not have achieved any of his objectives if he did not deal with the House, who controls the purse strings. In order to get funding to expand the military and win the nuclear arms race with the USSR, Reagan NEEDED to deal with the democrat controlled congress, headed by Tip Oneal.
In order to do that, compromises are imperative. This is the political reality of this country that once had opposition parties. Hardly the case anymore, but that was the case back then.
Hardly any president actually achieved all of their objectives without compromise. Perhaps James Polk was the only one.
The amnesty thing ended up being a stain, but to dismiss the democrat controlled House, the cold war and the cooperation Reagan needed in order to make our military what it was, which collapsed the USSR, then you are blind.
Not saying that Tip O Neil and the dems were innocent either but the facts are that Reagan ran the most corrupt administration ever at the time and was a TRAITER to americans .More people were indicted in his administration than any other administration ever until Clinton came along.
The USSR collapsed under its own footprint. Every serious researcher knows that. I took this reaganut zombie to school and gave him a major ass beating in posts #41,#43,and #49 here LOL
Thank You President Reagan For Smashing The Berlin Wall!
The guy must be a close relative of his the fact the could be that delusional calling him the greatest ever.maybe most corrupt ever.that I would not argue too much with if not for all the presidents we have had SINCE that now make him not look so bad.

Thankfully Trump seems to be changing that trend.
Here is the great Ronnie exposed in full black and white even more so that I exposed him over on that other thread as the most corrupt inept president ever at the time.
- Traitor of the American people
- Destroyer of the environment
- Supporter of Satanists & child-murderers "
- I just LOVE our corrupt school system we have that Idolizes this man.

I liked all these FIRSTS of Ronnies corruption,sad but truth I am afraid.
In reality, Reagan did nothing to bring down the Soviet Union.
Reagan's was the most corrupt administration of the late 20th century
Ronald Reagan won the "Cold War".
In reality, Reagan did nothing to bring down the Soviet Union.
By 1980, the Soviet Union was trying to cut its own defense spending. Reagan made it harder for them to do so. In fact, Reagan increased the possibility of a nuclear war because he was – frankly, and sadly – senile. He thought we could actually recall submarine-launched nuclear missiles (talk about a Reagan myth), and bullied the Soviets to highest alert several times.
Critically, Reagan never even tried to bring down the Soviet Union.
Wasteful overspending on defense didn't end the Soviet Union. In fact, it played into the hands of authoritarian "Communist" hard-liners in the Kremlin. Reagan thought the Soviet Union was more powerful than we were. He was trying to close what he called "the window of vulnerability."
This was sheer idiocy.
No general in our military would trade our armed forces for theirs. If it were to happen, none of the Soviet military command would turn down that deal. We had better systems, better troops, and better morale.
Here's the truth: we'd already won the Cold War before Reagan took office. All Reagan needed to do was continue the tried-and-true containment policies Harry S. Truman began and all subsequent presidents employed. The Soviet Union was collapsing from within. The CIA actually told this to Reagan as he took office.
Here's an example: the Soviet Union military couldn't deal with a weak state on its own border, the poor, undermanned Afghanistan. Most of the Soviets' military might had to make sure its "allies" in the Warsaw Pact and subjects along the South Asian front didn't revolt. Even Richard Nixon told Reagan he could balance the budget with big defense cuts.
Reagan ignored this, and wrecked our budget.
We didn't have to increase weapons spending, but Reagan didn't care. He ran away from summits with the dying old-guard Soviets, and the new-style "glasnost" leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev baffled the witless Reagan and his closed-minded extremist advisors.
Maggie Thatcher finally cajoled the Gipper into meeting Gorby, and Gorby cleaned Reagan's clock. Reagan's hard-right "handlers" nearly had to drag Reagan out of the room before he signed away our entire nuclear deterrent. Reagan – and the planet – was lucky Gorbachev sought genuine and stable peace. Had Yuri Andropov's health held, Reagan's "jokes" and gaffes might have caused World War III.
Eventually Reagan even gave Gorbachev his seal of approval. Visiting Moscow before the August Coup, Reagan said the Soviet Union was no longer the "Evil Empire." He predicted his friend Gorbachev would lead the Soviet Union for many years to come.
As usual, Reagan was wrong. A few months later, disgruntled military officers kidnapped Gorbachev, throwing him out of power forever. Reagan remained disengaged: nothing he did caused the coup, and nothing he did made the Soviet military support Boris Yeltsin over their superiors.
We're all fortunate things happened as they did – but once again, Reagan did nothing to make this fluke more likely.
All this is vintage Reagan. Reagan took credit for others' hard word and hard choices, and blamed them for his failures. Reagan even blamed Jimmy Carter for Reagan's foolish, fatal, and reckless decision to leave 243 Marines stationed in Beirut, helpless and unguarded.
Reagan hired over 100 crooks to run our government, and broke several laws himself. His policies were almost uniformly self-defeating, wrong-headed, immoral and unfair.
Reagan was an actor playing the part of the president. He was style over substance; lucky, not good. And once the myths are stripped from the "legacy", the truth becomes obvious:
Reagan was by far the most overrated man in American history.
Indeed,the UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY.












CHEERS TO THIS AUTHOR WHO KNOWS HIS STUFF.