My point is that many liberals are unfair to poor old Ronald. He never really did anything wrong. He read out some speeches and occasionally signed some documents. He wasn't responsible for Iran-Contra, he just didn't have the brainpower to understand it.
I have not yet read a recent school history book entry about Reagan, so maybe the school districts need to improve their vetting process for textbook accuracy and bias.
I was an adult when Reagan was elected. I was young and naive, and I voted for him his first term. He, however, was not naive. He was not stupid. He was not innocent. He did quite a bit more than just sign a few papers. The nice old grand dad act was just that - an act, performed by a former professional movie actor. This absolutely drove the better journalists and Democratic politicians at that time
nuts!No matter what dirt they came up with on Reagan, he just smiled and shrugged and awwwww shucked it off. His nickname wasn't just "The Great Communicator", it was also "The Teflon President". He simply never got caught outright. It almost seems as if people nowadays are solely focused on his last days in office, when he had the early warning signs of onset of Alzheimer's. Please, understand that I don't see him as "poor old addle-brained Gram-pa Reagan". I witnessed his presidency. I remember things quite a bit differently. He was just a smooth operator.