He cut taxes for the rich saying the benefits would “gradually trickle down to the lower classes”. You know how that went. He made up ridiculous stories of poor people stealing money from the working class. He said one Chicago woman with up to 200 aliases collected $150,000 in welfare money. After an extensive investigation they found the only woman in Chicago using another alias for welfare checks and the money was only $8,000. Then he ended up crashing the savings and loan market. Then he robbed the social security trust fund to pay off the now 4x greater deficit he created during his presidency. He’s the one who ignited the working class animosity against the lower class. From then on that was the driving force of the Republican Party’s go to excuse for cutting taxes for rich people
Not to mention, he supplied weapons to Iran, Iraq, and Nicaragua. He continued to supply Saddam Hussein with weapons even after the world condemned him for killing thousands of civilians with chemical weapons. He caved to terrorist demands 3 times, which led to hundreds of people getting killed. Then to draw attention away from his shortcomings with failing to stop terrorist attacks he started the unnecessary war in Grenada to remove Cuban soldiers. Then there’s the whole “war on drugs” thing he started in in Colombia, but really the CIA helped funnel the cocaine into inner city communities to establish the problem first. Barry Seal, who was the guy they forced to smuggle the weapons into Nicaragua, was also the guy they made smuggle the cocaine from Colombia to Florida. Then they put a camera on his plane and snapped a photo of Pablo Escobar on the tarmac. The picture leaked to news outlets while he was still in Colombia. He managed to escape, but the US government refused to put him into witness protection, so a Colombian hit squad eventually caught up with him in Louisiana. (That part sounds far fetched but it’s actually all public record). Reagan also supplied weapons to the rebels in Afghanistan who eventually formed Al Qaeda. He vetoed the farm credit relief bill which eventually caused hundreds of thousands of farmers to declare bankruptcy. Ever heard of the Farm Aid benefit concerts in the 80s? Also, he opposed congress’s vote to put sanctions on South Africa for being racist and not ending Apartheid, which they overrode.