That would be the finest President in at least a century.
1. On this very day, in 1984: U.S. President Ronald Reagan won reelection in a landslide victory over Democratic candidate Walter F. Mondale.
Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate, in a landslide victory, winning 525 electoral votes and 58.8 percent of the popular vote. No other candidate in United States history has ever matched Reagan's electoral vote total in a single election.
1984 United States presidential election - Wikipedia
Mondale was the stereotypical Democrat:
"Dan Rostenkowski, standing next to the candidate in front of the cameras and the cheering crowd at the convention after the fateful speech, whispered to Mondale, "You've got a lot of balls, pal." According to Rostenkowski, Mondale whispered back, "Look at 'em, we're going to tax their ass off." ("Showdown At Gucci Gulch," Jeffrey H. Birnbaum And Alan S. Murray, page 35)
2. When he entered office in 1980, Reagan believed that the United States had grown weak militarily and had lost the respect it once commanded in world affairs. Aiming to restore the country to a position of moral as well as military preeminence in the world, he called for massive increases in the defense budget to expand and modernize the military and urged a more aggressive approach to combating communism and related forms of leftist totalitarianism.
3. At his first press conference as president, Reagan audaciously questioned the legitimacy of the Soviet government; two years later, in a memorable speech in Florida, he denounced the Soviet Union as “an evil empire” and “the focus of evil in the modern world.”
Britannica.com
4. "Ronald Reagan came to the presidency in 1981 having declared that his strategy regarding the Cold War was 'We win, they lose.'
It was seen as a foolish and dangerous position by everyone from academic Sovietologists to Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Presidents since the end of World War II had pledged themselves to no more than containing communism and, latterly, reaching detente with the Soviet Union. None had said anything remotely like 'We win, they lose.'
Ten years later the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.
5. ...it is clear that Reagan poked a shaky Soviet system in some vulnerable places- by arming the mujahedeen in Afghanistan with Stinger missiles; starting a technological arms race that the Soviet leadership knew it could not match; and assaulting the Soviet Union's pride rhetorically, from his 'Evil Empire' speech (surprisingly dismaying to the Soviets, we have since learned) to his 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall' speech in Berlin. "
Charles Murray, "By The People," p. 247-248.
Now.....we have this:
1. On this very day, in 1984: U.S. President Ronald Reagan won reelection in a landslide victory over Democratic candidate Walter F. Mondale.
Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate, in a landslide victory, winning 525 electoral votes and 58.8 percent of the popular vote. No other candidate in United States history has ever matched Reagan's electoral vote total in a single election.
1984 United States presidential election - Wikipedia
Mondale was the stereotypical Democrat:
"Dan Rostenkowski, standing next to the candidate in front of the cameras and the cheering crowd at the convention after the fateful speech, whispered to Mondale, "You've got a lot of balls, pal." According to Rostenkowski, Mondale whispered back, "Look at 'em, we're going to tax their ass off." ("Showdown At Gucci Gulch," Jeffrey H. Birnbaum And Alan S. Murray, page 35)
2. When he entered office in 1980, Reagan believed that the United States had grown weak militarily and had lost the respect it once commanded in world affairs. Aiming to restore the country to a position of moral as well as military preeminence in the world, he called for massive increases in the defense budget to expand and modernize the military and urged a more aggressive approach to combating communism and related forms of leftist totalitarianism.
3. At his first press conference as president, Reagan audaciously questioned the legitimacy of the Soviet government; two years later, in a memorable speech in Florida, he denounced the Soviet Union as “an evil empire” and “the focus of evil in the modern world.”
Britannica.com
4. "Ronald Reagan came to the presidency in 1981 having declared that his strategy regarding the Cold War was 'We win, they lose.'
It was seen as a foolish and dangerous position by everyone from academic Sovietologists to Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Presidents since the end of World War II had pledged themselves to no more than containing communism and, latterly, reaching detente with the Soviet Union. None had said anything remotely like 'We win, they lose.'
Ten years later the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.
5. ...it is clear that Reagan poked a shaky Soviet system in some vulnerable places- by arming the mujahedeen in Afghanistan with Stinger missiles; starting a technological arms race that the Soviet leadership knew it could not match; and assaulting the Soviet Union's pride rhetorically, from his 'Evil Empire' speech (surprisingly dismaying to the Soviets, we have since learned) to his 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall' speech in Berlin. "
Charles Murray, "By The People," p. 247-248.
Now.....we have this:
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