I am so very sorry that I didn't appreciate him when he was in office. I was at that time under the yoke of the democrat party.
In his first inaugural I felt as if he was looking out for people like me when he said to average Americans, "your hopes, dreams, and aspirations will be the hopes, dreams, and aspirations of my administration, SO HELP ME GOD!" I thought that was so powerful.
I must look up the rest of the quote but I thought his ending in that speech was great too. He quoted the man who died in WW 1, and spoke of how America was such a force for good. "And why shouldn't we believe that," said Reagan, "we are Americans!"
"I was at that time under the yoke of the democrat party."
You got better. :-) (to quote from The Holy Grail)
Yes, RR was unappreciated, yea ridiculed, by many during his administrations, not the least of whom were most of the posters on the far-;left Guardian website, including a significant number of American libs who eagerly joined British commies in the Reagan bashing. I am reminded of a thread that went into the many hundreds that consisted of inane variations on the name "Ronnie Raygun," a favorite appellation by the Left for Reagan on both sides of the Atlantic.