he never knew what was going on in his white house, he was nothing but a puppet for the right wing maniacs.
he was completely detached from reality.
We could claim that Clinton and Obama are puppets by left wing maniacs. It's just an assertion that gets made without evidence.
No, he wasn't detached from reality. Maybe he didn't micromanage. Maybe there was a thing called plausible denial. There are other explanations aside from those made by left-wing extremists who hate Reagan because of who he was. If you're a left-winger then Clinton and Obama walk on water and do no wrong, and Reagan and Republicans are worse than Hitler and Satan combined. Left-wingers hate Republicans more than they hate ISIS. It's simply not possible to look at those that they disagree with nuance and understanding since that might create too much cognitive dissonance, too much intellectual discomfort. It's so much easier to hate and misrepresent.
