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Reagan stared the dissolution of union power by firing all the air traffic controllers, an event from which we still haven't recovered from in 2025 since ATCs take a lot of training, so all the ones we have currently are overworked and pulling a lot of overtime along with their short pay, scant benefits and 1980s era equipment.
Actually, Reagan was the salted bomb that spelled the end of the United States, and it's just been dying of radiation poisoning since. Reagan was a product of television evangelists like Jerry Falwell organizing churches into a Republican voting bloc (with abortion access obstruction being their unifying issue). Why? Because they didn't like nonwhites in their religious academies.
...And before that, industrialists who were really sore about FDRs New Deal. (And to make the implication explicit, said industrialists were totally happy with Americans living in shantytowns, Hoovervilles and eating flour paste to survive while dying of malnutrition. This is the great that MAGAs want the US to return to.
So really, America and the rise of the fascist autocratic MAGA movement is a whole bunch of greed and bigotry all the way down, and if I were reading it in a fiction story, the society deserves to fall. But I'm in the middle of it and it sucks to be the little people while the high lords play their games of thrones.