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Your path was set looooong before Reagan.
If you wish you carve a path from scratch, first you must create the universe.
Reagan actively courted the Religious Right, which as everyone knows, was a bad idea for democracy.
Those fuckers do not compromise, because they want theocracy.
Now, the fact that there was a religious right in the first place is a whole other cn of worms.
If anything, the New Deal and wealth accrued through rapid industrialization by becoming the world's number one weapons manufacturer while taking little to no infrastructural damage during WW2 seem like anomalies.
The founding of our country required a compromise that counted slaves as Three-Fifths of a person, just so that the conservative South could get greater representation in the House.
Those slaves, of course, would enjoy the protections and security that the Constitution offered as a result!
J/k they were fucked both literally and figuratively.
He popularized the anti-working class agenda among the masses.