Word: dealism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overall spending ceiling was set with a so-called "reconciliation" budget package, and startled appropriations czars were told not to exceed the general limit in their 13 specific areas. Combining this victory with his tax cut, Reagan bragged he had finally saved the nation from the cancer of New Dealism and promptly took off for his month-long summer vacation, presumably to get the government off his back for a while...
...Democratic Party may find an opportunity in the next four years to demonstrate the virtues of its old openheartedness when it is practiced in imaginative ways. But if the party merely reverts to a reflexive New Dealism, it may only be an opposition that proves the maxim formulated by the late social theorist Ernest Becker: "A protest without a program is little more than sentimentalism-this is the epitaph of many of the great idealisms...