CMF, that is not true about Thatcher or Reagan. They slowed GDP growth in both countries. They lowered taxes which created a pattern of creating massive deficits. Then pointed at poverty and welfare as the culprit. The less we spent on welfare the more debt the federal govt ended up with. It was a lie that poor people were causing debt. Instead the wealthy were being paid out of the public coffers ie defense spending, and a lot of other spending. The only thing I can say is you were lied to a lot. Reagan called it disinformation. We all know or I thought we all knew that means lying to the public. It was shrouded as fighting the Russians. Laughable. It was screwing the public. It sank the American economy for about 80% of the public.
Today 90% of white males over age 50 wont be able to afford to retire. That was done out of spite to profit a few. The spite was padded in all sorts of lying. Reagan did really well?
I guess lying never goes away.