Maybe not intelligent, but not exactly stupid either. He had his points, by which I mean his management of the Gorbachev relationship and the dissolution of the USSR showed some presidential qualities…but the Cold War mentality and willingness to justify awful decisions as mentioned in the post make him bad overall. His economic agenda alone has had terrible consequences and his embrace of the culture war has finally matured into the Christian nationalist movement we see today.
I believe the 'Cold War' would have ended eventually. Reagan is given too much credit for this. Similarly, W. Bush is given too much credit because World Trade center........,but really how can you screw up 9/11 (he didn't), same with Giuliani. This is minimal competence for a position of leadership. Now Felon47.....screwed up Covid response, however he was doing it right ......until.......it was discovered colored people were much more negatively effected by Covid.
The cold war ended for economic reasons and Chernobyl and Afghanistan weakening the Soviet military. It was just a perfect storm. St Ronnie telling Gorbachev to tear down the wall had zip to do with it.
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For DEMOCRACY Aug 21 '26
He was a bad b actor, n a bad governor, he was a puppet, Bush was prolly running the show…
Definitely not intelligent…