Look, if we’re being honest, being the "best" president is a high bar, but Ronald Reagan didn't just clear it—he did it while cracking jokes and making the "intellectuals" in D.C. look like they’d never balanced a checkbook in their lives. To understand why he’s the best, you have to remember the 1970s. It was a decade of polyester, disco, and an economy that functioned like a car with no engine and four flat tires. Then came Reagan.
Before Reagan, we had "stagflation," which is a fancy economic term for "everything is expensive and nobody has a job." The genius plan back then was to tax people until they had no incentive to actually work. Reagan had a radical, almost "crazy" idea: maybe if you let people keep their own money, they’ll actually spend it and create jobs. Shocking, I know.
He slashed the top tax rate from 70% to 28%. The critics cried that the sky was falling, but instead, the economy took off