Editing Ronald Reagan

{{Infobox politician|name=Ronald Reagan|birth_date=February 6, 1911|birth_place=Tampico, Illinois, [[United States of America|United States]]|death_date=June 5, 2004|death_place=Los Angeles, [[California]], United States|political_line=[[Anti-communism]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Neoliberalism]]<br>[[White supremacy]]<br>[[Imperialism]]|political_party=[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]|image=Ronald Reagan.png|Political Party=}}

'''Ronald Reagan''' was a neoliberal U.S. politician and the President of the United States from 1981 to 1989.

==Domestic policy==
Reagan cut taxes for the rich and increased income inequality.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Margaret Kimberley|newspaper=[[Black Agenda Report]]|title=Freedom Rider: Ronald Reagan’s Demons|date=2011-02-09|url=https://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-ronald-reagan%E2%80%99s-demons|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107143529/https://blackagendareport.com/content/freedom-rider-ronald-reagan%E2%80%99s-demons|archive-date=2022-01-07|retrieved=2022-08-21}}</ref> He blamed the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s on gay people instead of trying to eradicate the disease. His policies caused thousands of needless deaths.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Gloria La Riva]]|newspaper=[[Liberation News]]|title=La Riva on Clinton, Reagans and AIDS: “Clinton just re-wrote history”|date=2016-03-13|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/la-riva-clinton-reagans-aids-clinton-just-re-wrote-history/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200111145928/https://www.liberationnews.org/la-riva-clinton-reagans-aids-clinton-just-re-wrote-history/|archive-date=2020-01-11|retrieved=2022-08-21}}</ref> Reagan cut subsidized housing by more than 80% and said that homeless people were homeless by choice.<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=Liberation News|title=Homelessness and the Reagan legacy|date=2013-02-01|url=https://www.liberationnews.org/homelessness-and-the-reagan-legacy-html/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715232400/https://www.liberationnews.org/homelessness-and-the-reagan-legacy-html/|archive-date=2022-07-15|retrieved=2022-08-21}}</ref>

== Foreign policy ==
Reagan funded death squads in [[Republic of El Salvador|El Salvador]] and [[Republic of Guatemala|Guatemala]] that committed genocide against indigenous peoples, as well as the far-right [[Contras]] in [[Republic of Nicaragua|Nicaragua]].<ref>{{Web citation|newspaper=[[Red Phoenix]]|title=The Real Reagan|date=2011-06-22|url=https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/06/22/the-real-reagan/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126023731/https://theredphoenixapl.org/2011/06/22/the-real-reagan/|archive-date=2021-01-26|retrieved=2022-08-21}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Neoliberals]]
[[Category:Politicians in the United States]]
[[Category:Reactionaries]]
[[Category:Statesians of Canadian descent]]
[[Category:Statesians of English descent]]
[[Category:Statesians of Irish descent]]
[[Category:Statesians of Scottish descent]]
[[Category:Anti-communists]]
[[Category:Presidents of the United States]]