Man, I'm not exactly a Reagan fan (he would be one reason I would want hell to be a real thing), but I'm pretty sure he didn't think that getting magnets wet would destroy magnetism, a fundamental force of nature.

There is useful idiot and there is useful idiot.

Thats the thing, he was an actor. He performed the role of the noble politician.

But the real reagan was in his early career. He was president of SAG, which is a union, and then went union busting as a politician. He informed to the FBI and the house un american committee about his fellow actors as to who might be communist during the red scare. Theres so much more, but then this would be a wall of text.

The charming idiot of his late presidency was partly act, partly and increasingly the dementia.