I'm pretty sure decades of mismanagement, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and a broken oil pipeline caused the collapse of the USSR. Ronny Ray Gun just happened

I'm pretty sure decades of mismanagement, the Mujahideen in Afghanistan and a broken oil pipeline caused the collapse of the USSR. Ronny Ray Gun just happened to be in office at the time. But becoming president of the US is huge! Only a few dozen people have ever managed to do so :-)