Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calls it "conservatism of the heart," an ideological recoil from the wreckage left by an unfettered free market. "What is conservatism all about?" he asks. "Reagan used to talk about family, faith, work, neighborhood, community. Communities are being torn apart. Families are under tremendous economic pressure. Conservatives are going to have to ask themselves, What is it we want to conserve...
This quick reversal is less shocking if one looks back to November 1992, two years before the Republican victory--when Clinton ended 12 years of Republican presidential rule, winning back large areas of the South and the precious "Reagan Democrats." Or one could go back another 2 years, to the aftermath of the Gulf War, when hen-President George Bush had approval ratings in the 90 percent range, and not a single prominent Democrat would run against...
...This is a historic moment in the party's history," Zirois said. "Pat's trying to rebuild the Reagan Coalition--it's an extension of what happened in 1994" when conservative Republicans captured both branches of Congress for the first time since 1947, he said...
...Dole may be a little old, but he can take former president Ronald Reagan as a thriving mentor. He has the support of two-thirds of the Republican governors in the United States. He is the best of the Republican crop as it has been presented to us. We just wish that we had been given a little better and that the candidates had put on some make-up to cover their warts...
According to the theory, the Iowa voters of 1976, catching the campaign on TV screens that had more snow than the back 40, assumed that Reagan still looked like the Gipper. Four years later they had cable...