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Why hasn’t a CA governor become President since President Reagan?

One would think running the country’s largest state would be great training for the job?
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BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
Reagan was such a godawful president that we are all pretty hesitant to elect another Californian.
Slappaho · 41-45, M
You need to study more@BlueMetalChick
BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F
@Slappaho No, I really don't. You'd be the one who needs to study more. Reagan was an abomination of a president, his deregulatory practices caused enormous harm to the US economy, he intentionally increased the price of secondary education, he wasted an asinine amount of money on the utter disaster that was the Contras scandal involving Nicaragua and later Iran. He allowed predatory financial actions to run rampant. He shut down sanitariums and asylums, resulting in the mentally insane being forced into homelessness.

Or, perhaps I should say, his administration did all those things. A lot of people say Reagan was losing his cognitive abilities to Alzheimer's disease far sooner than anyone realized and had no idea what he was doing, and those around him were manipulating him to their interests.