It's more honest, and a retvrn to its original name. Time to drop the pretense. 
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this is kind of a change of subject but how do you explain his decisive win both times? i've been saying reagan was tragedy and trump is farce, all their victories being explainable by deliberately incompetent democrats. still, that seems so simplistic as to be wrong and i've been wanting to ask a comrade who lived through that time
I'm probably nearly as mystified by Reagan's wins as you are. So much has changed in America and my own life that my answer right now would be weak and facile. I'll likely get back to yout today or tomorrow. But first - I need to find an article or two that explains things to my liking that also twigs my own faded memories of that time. Sometimes I put off googling for years. This is an extreme case. I've wanted to remind myself of Reagan's hows-and-whys for at least nine years since Trump's 2016 win.
If my simple google trick of "before" like "before:2020" works - I'm sure I'll get back to you. Google results focused on now are real garbage.
Ninja edit. A Bill Hicks' standup routine included the line "I've noticed a profound anti-intellectualism since about 1980..." Yet now things are 100 times worse. It's unbelievable for me. Fucking polio could make a comeback due to antivax stupidity becoming mainstream, etc. etc. etc. As bad as the Reagan era was - at least the GOP wasn't 100% batshit insane.
seems like since the soviet union's gone the empire has no more reason to find competent imperialists. the new guys are all out of touch and it seems like they genuinely believe the stuff the old guard had to say. like one of those old kingdoms that fell because all their leaders were inbred