There was much more to it than that. Let me count just a few from memory:
Panama Canal give away
Mexican Border redrawn
November 7, 1979, the U.S. Embassy in Iran was seized by Muslim terrorists and our President did nothing in response
Desert One debacle
Interest rates above 15%
Need I go on?
That’s what I was thinking. The “killer rabbit” wasn’t the cause of the Reagan Landslide. At the time we just all saw it as proof that even the wildlife was fed up with the peanut farmer.
Gas was around .75 cents per gallon back then! Gas now is at 3.59 a gallon. We didn’t have any respect in the world.
Who cares if interest rates are low you can’t get a loan.
Gas Lines! Had to sit in those damn lines in the middle of a Texas summer. Man I hated those gas lines!