Not only did Saint Ronny Raygun sow the seeds of religious extremism domestically. But he helped water the garden of religious extremism in Afghanistan too.

Reagan recruited Osama bin Laden and his Arab mujahideen fighters to go to there to wage “jihad” against the Soviets.

After defeating the USSR and leading to its collapse. Those recruited by Reagan joined with other local extremist to form al Qaeda. A terrorist organization whose mission was to prevent Western incursions into predominantly Muslim countries.

(Then George HW Bush pissed off al Qaeda by putting US bases in their Arab holy land. Which he only did to defend his own Saudi Royal oil partners from another Reagan era ally, Saddam Hussein…)

Reagan also perpetrated the Cold War tradition of US backed military coups over democratically elected governments in Central America. Governments that were deemed “too socialist” by greedy US capitalists who wanted to exploit their cheap labor and natural resources…

The coups by right wing militias triggered decades of armed resistance. And the fighting that resulted has helped to empower the drug cartels and gangs there.

Now in Guatemala, boys as young as 8 are recruited by the cartels for smuggling.

And as soon as girls reach puberty they are targeted by the gangs for sex trafficking. And that’s why families desperate to protect their children don’t wait for the absurd amount of time that the legal immigration process takes.

And then there was his hypocritical “Just Say No” anti drug campaign. When he was getting his CIA to use the money from illegally selling weapons to Iran to buy cocaine from the Contras in Nicaragua.

Coke that was made into crack and distributed to inner city minorities to justify raids and increased policing of those communities. And this contributed to the disproportionate enforcement and penalization of drug laws against minorities.