Some Bright Spots About Trump's Honesty - Could He Be Any Worse Than Reagan?

While I realize it seems like the end of the world, especially for those of the non-white, non-heterosexual, non-assault weapon-toting persuasion, there is one bright spot in all of this: Trump's brutal honesty.

Compare this with say, Ronald Reagan, and you'll see Reagan carry an extremely sinister set of policies throughout his Presidency which pretty much mirror Trump's speech; policies which were all couched at the time as, "In the Nation's best interest".

1.) Racism Against Blacks - The Reagan administration's decision to treat the widespread use of illicit substances as a criminal issue rather than a public health issue had a directly negative effect on the American Black population. This policy alone is at the core of the extremely high, disproportionate levels of incarceration of Blacks vs. Whites.

2.) Murder of Muslims - The vacillation of support between Iran and Iraq came to a head during the Reagan years when the Iran-Contra scandal became a sensation; however, even without the scandal it is quite clear that the United States swung heavily from support of Iran to support of Iraq following the Iranian Revolution. The Iran-Contra scandal just simply highlighted that the United States was providing arms to both Iran and Iraq at the same time, resulting in massive casualties and deaths in the Muslim world.

3.) The Mentally Ill - Under the Reagan administration the funding of mental health centers in local communities was stripped, and thousands of mentally ill released onto the streets to become homeless, drug-users, criminals, or dead. His rampant disregard for the care of the mentally-ill extended even to our Veterans. Many of whom, suffering from PTSD, became homeless (think Rambo I) or joined extremely violent criminal organizations based around Motorcycles and Freedom (though these origins date back to WWII).

4.) Escalation of the Cold War - Ronald Reagan's paranoid obsession with the Star Wars program, a global counter-offensive net of lasers that could strike down any ICBM attack, led the United States to the brink of bankruptcy. Reagan spent so much money on the military, stripping out funding for public health, schools, farming programs, and pretty much everything else, that the Soviet Union went bankrupt trying to keep up. Sounds like a win, right? Until you realize all of those ex-Soviet states are now Sovereign Nations with loads of high-grade Soviet Military equipment, including Nuclear weapons. (Thus leading directly to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the ethnic cleansing of Muslim Bosniaks)

So, while by no means am I saying this is ideal; personally, I feel like minorities and non-Evangelicals are a whole lot better off with Trump standing at the Bully Pulpit, denouncing them, revealing his horns so that we may be prepared to Fight, than they were with Reagan systematically destroying their worlds.

All the while smiling that famous perfect smile of "The Gipper".