People's opinions are often formed by musicians, partisan journos, and modern documentaries/movies which they then translate to mean it was the popular perception of leaders or the bulk of the people who lived through it.

Most of the journalists who remain popular tend to be those who are more radical/on the edge of cultural which is how they remained relevant beyond their era so it's easy to assume those people are representative of the population or even the educated class.

> People forget how quickly Carter screwed up the economy.

The oil shock and stagflation began under Nixon/Ford, and stagflation itself was spurred by Nixonian policy. People seem to forget this quite often. Carter was only president during the last 3 years of the 70s.

Volcker was appointed by Carter and made things really bad for a brief time, but those 20% interest rates ended stagflation, leading to Volcker's reappointment by Reagan.

Ah typical response of bad things happen under democrat president, so blame the last Republican.

Biden Abruptly Pulling out of an Afghanistan, was a complete utter disaster. Let’s blame someone else!

Everything I said is factually true.

Carter made mistakes. His major economic political mistake was to tell everyone that they'd have to basically take one for the team. And we had 12 years of Republican presidents after because of it.

Nixon was just a major chump in many ways. Moreso than almost any other president.

And it's funny as heck that Carter gets the blame for the entire 70s when it was economically troublesome before he was ever elected.

> He was an amazing president that ended the Cold War. Ended inflation and kick started 20 years of economic growth.

Even a simple look at the timeline shows that is wrong. It doesn't even stand up to a cursory look at the evidence.

Reagan massively escalated the Cold War. There is literally a heading on his wikipedia page entitled "Escalation of the Cold War".

The Soviet Union fell after Reagan left the oval office! The 1989 Revolutions all happened after Reagan left. The breakup of the Soviet Union itself happened well over a year later.

Reagan left the US in bad shape. He slowed down inflation but massively expanded public debt. He left Bush such a crappy economy that it immediately entered a recession that resulted in him losing his reelection run.

Not only that, he started the decline of the US economy. https://www.piie.com/sites/default/files/styles/slimmed_natu... Before Reagan nominal GDP growth was high, after the US turned hardcore conservative, GDP growth has been poor.

I have no idea how Republicans managed to brainwash people so badly that they don't even look at the most basic evidence.