While not enamored with Reagan, I did live through his Presidency as a young adult.
At the beginning the country was a —-ed up dangerous place, bleak, depressed. Double digit interest rates on basically everything. The Iran hostage crises. Soviets in Afghanistan. Rust belt rotting our northern cities.
At the end, it still was, a little less bleak, little less globally insecure. At a cost though.
