It's believed that Johnson would never have been impeached because he had bribed numerous senators. While he was acquitted by one vote, his crew had several senators in his pocket who would have provided that "one vote". I don't think it's possible for Johnson to have been impeached since the Republicans were too corrupt themselves (ever hear of the U.S. Grant administration?).
Reaganomics worked splendidly to stop skyrocketing inflation, at the cost of a temporary spike in unemployment. Once the disastrous inflation was taken care of, unemployment went down and the economy was doing fucking excellent.
Just like now. Thanks to Reaganomics, or supply side economics, or actually thinking about economics as opposed to tax tax tax tax.
This is another leftist revision of history. Reaganomics work.
He threw out the baby with the bathwater and helped put America on the shitty neoliberal path which set us up for the shit we deal with today. Same with his crony Thatcher. All either of them did was present a charismatic figure (not so much with Thatcher, but for a female politician she was pretty respectable even if you hated her) to rally behind. I'll give Reagan credit for beating the USSR with his huge military spending and aggressive foreign policy, but domestically he set America down a horrible path.
Last good Republican president was Nixon. Kept us away from the excesses of the 60s counterculture, and kept us away from McGovern's shit, although IMO either Hubert Humphrey, Gene McCarthy, or Edmund Muskie might have done better. He might've been an asshole in some ways, but at least he did plenty of good at the same time and didn't go all out for random corporate bastards or retarded foreign politics.
The only thing Reaganomics succeeded in doing was running up huge deficits, gutting the middle class, and lining the pockets of the same people who would eventually outsource American jobs to China.
Recently deceased Deep State leader George H.W. Bush would've been better. He seemed to have a bit more of a solid goal, and if that Jodie Foster fanboy had killed Reagan, he would've been a good president. Of course the opposition was shit, since Mondale was pretty dumb, Dukakis a prototype of the modern Democrat, Carter was mediocre as president (but IMO not as bad as he's accused of being) and better as a diplomat, etc., morons like Jerry Brown and Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson were prominent. The 80s were as bad for the Democrats as today's Democrats are, and it led to the rise of the Clintons. Al Gore in 1988 might've been good though, since he was still connected to the people, not as connected to the Clintons at that point, and had a great vision. Sadly, his years as vice president corrupted him and he lost his home state (and thus the election) because he had grown too detatched from his local allies.
