Word: intuitionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Eisenhower-Reagan comparison is an interesting and almost subliminal effect now forming in the American psyche. It has gone largely unexamined. It is an intuition, a form of anticipatory nostalgia. It may also be an exercise in hopeful self-deception.
As in 1976, Brown is trying to tout himself as the anti-politics politician, describing his dark horse campaign as a "frontal attack on the conventional wisdom of a dying political party." Since the time he "limited lobbyist spending to two hamburgers and a coke" as California secretary of state...