I am a bit late to Reagan's Birthday (lmao), but I thought that in the spirit of hoping he's rotting in hell, I would compile a useful thread to be sent to every idiot that still thinks that man is redeemable in any way, shape or form.

1. On Franco: https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/10/world/remark-by-reagan-on-lincoln-brigade-prompts-ire-in-spain.html

"In an interview...the President said that most Americans believed that their fellow Americans who fought with the Loyalist forces were on the wrong side.

The Loyalists were defending the republican Government against the fascist insurgents of Franco."

On Apartheid:

"On this day in 1986, the House voted 313-83 to override President Ronald Reagan’s veto of the Comprehensive Apartheid Act, which levied economic sanctions against the Republic of South Africa." https://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/29/house-overrides-reagan-apartheid-veto-sept-29-1986-243169

Nelson Mandela would later go on to cite the sanctions against the Apartheid regime as a significant reason for its downfall.

Iran-Contra affair: https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1038913689250717696?s=19

It's fitting for MSNBC to have described it as "Watergate 2", especially since Reagan enjoyed letting loose with his unabashed racism when speaking to Nixon: https://twitter.com/Ro_Pulcini/status/1287678371447672833?s=19

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-releases-crack-cocaine-report-anti-drug-abuse-act-1986-deepened-racial-inequity

Who can forget his efforts in "the war on drugs"? And specifically his passage of the Anti-Drug abuse act and its minimum sentencing laws that were inherently racist and lead to the disproportionate arrests of black Americans?

"Before the enactment of federal mandatory minimum sentencing for crack cocaine offenses (1986), the average federal drug sentence for African Americans was 11% higher than for whites. 4 years later, the average federal drug sentence for African Americans was 49% higher".