their whole view of the wall thing showed, decades ago, many of the cultish problems that are now obvious.
ever since the end of wwii, republicans were united with democrats in the view that capitalism was inherently better than communism and that the soviet union would fall under its own weight because communism was simply an inferior system.
then, when the wall fell, the most obvious marker of the series of events that led to the fall of the soviet union, all of a sudden they switched to reagan-worship. it was his speech demanding the wall be torn down that finally did them in. who know all it took was just the right speech? as if eisenhower could have shut them down years earlier with a dramatic demand. oh, but obama only good at speeches and how could he be a good president.
what happened to all the rhetoric about capitalism being better? all in one moment they completely lost interest in giving capitalism any credit for being a better system. nope. it was all reagan's speech and i suppose, had he not said that, communism would have lasted another 100 years.
and of course, the media played along *and still* plays along, even on this same dumb talking point decades later.
unlike donnie, reagan was pretty aware and politically astute (well, until he wasn't). he saw, as many other people who were remotely paying attention, that the soviet union was spread too thin, had trouble at home, and was losing its grip on its satellite states, particularly east germany and poland. reagan knew, as many knew, that the wall was going to come down one way or another. he made a speech that would let him take credit from something that was going to happen anyway, without him, for many reasons having nothing to do with him.
classic rooster taking credit for the rising of the sun.
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