Did Ronald Reagan do more harm than good?
https://www.quora.com/Did-Ronald-Reagan-do-more-harm-than-good/answer/Jon-Mixon-1
Iran-Contra - Basically Reagan set a precedent of the POTUS ignoring actual LAWS in favor of policies that were not beneficial to the nation. Fortunately for him, the pardon of former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger prevented Reagan himself from being placed on trial for his actions.share
Deregulation - Ever wonder why the airlines and the trucking industries are in shambles? Reagan’s push for “deregulation” of those industries led to bigger companies supplanting smaller ones and the customer not benefiting as a result.
The Northern Alliance/The Taliban - The Reagan Administration policy of arming the various mujahadeen groups in Afghanistan led directly to events that caused 9/11 and the still-continuing US-led war in the country. Basically Reagan’s lack of historical perspective and his failure of imagination are still killing people in a nation where he never went.
His embrace of the religious right wing is still plaguing the United States - There’s a reason that religious extremists are not consulted, nor courted, in the majority political matters: They are often unable to separate their doctrine and dogma from objective realities. By promoting the so-called “Moral Majority” Reagan set into the motion the disastrous policies that not only have damaged American politics, but which also have weakened his own Republican Party.
He increased the racial tensions here in the United States - Coming out the 1960s civil rights movement and the 1970s period of transition toward racial harmony the LAST thing that the American public needed was a president who was willing to foment racial friction for his own political ends. Unfortunately what we got was Ronald Reagan, who spent his entire presidency attempting to clearly delineate the racial divide and doing nothing to ameliorate it.