Anyway, one of the many valuable consequences of being raised by a non-patriotic family with a heap of European and South American friends was this: #RonaldReagan never seemed like anything but a sick joke, a symbol of American dysfunction and social breakdown.

Today's #Democrats still officially regard Ronnie Raygun as a "great President", freely copying his purportedly optimistic rhetoric while endorsing his fascistic emphasis on "law and order" and "personal responsibility"—so long as Democrats refuse to acknowledge Reagan's commitment to building up U.S. fascism and Christian extremism, the Democrats remain politically useless to the general public, a purely cosmetic "opposition". It's like the Democrats (as much as the GOP does) believes the Republican mythology about Reagan's apparent electoral landslide in 1984: the GOP acts as if this one election were eternal proof that the United States is "fundamentally a conservative nation" and gosh if the Democrats don't seem to think the same thing.