Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hate to admit it, because I am a Republican," says Michael Harlow, who served eight years in the Air Force and now works the evening shift at the front desk of a hotel. "But it appears that Bush, like Reagan before him, favors the wealthy, tolerates the poor and has forgotten the largest group in the middle." Julie Harlow, 33, has a degree in business administration and works part time managing a local gift store. "Sometimes I think the American Dream, at least for the middle class," she says, "is about dead...
Republicans lavished 37% on the upstart Pat Buchanan, an intensely focused right-wing commentator and old Nixon-Reagan speechwriter who uses ideas like ax handles. Those votes were less an expression of faith in Buchanan than an angry gesture directed at Bush, at his broken promises ("Read my lips: no new taxes") and at what many saw as his almost bizarre disconnection from the realities of American life, especially life in New Hampshire, which has been in an economic slump since 1989. At the end of the primary campaign, Bush showed up at a "town meeting" in Goffstown...
...well as substantive: Tsongas possesses a power of glamourlessness, a nerdy, basset-hound anti-image that gives hope to some voters who despair of American politics as glib, empty, pointless -- all sound bites and video bursts. Tsongas' astringent message was that Santa Claus in whatever extravagant forms (Ronald Reagan or the Great Society) is not coming back, and the nation can't afford any more toys. Tsongas succeeded, for the moment, by being virtually everything that Reagan...
...1990s sometimes look like the '80s turned inside out, as if the nation had been wearing a reversible raincoat. The gaudy, triumphal colors flashed during the Reagan years are suspect now. Or else they are remembered somewhat wistfully. The full national regalia was last worn when the troops came home from Desert Storm, which seems a while...
Besides, hardly anyone believes the old Reagan-era canard that it's the poor who are dragging us down. When a TIME/Yankelovich Clancy Shulman poll asked which groups are getting "too much" and "too little" from the Federal Government, 79% said the lower class, home of the fabled deadbeats and welfare cheats, is getting too little, and a startling 75% blamed the upper class for hogging more than its share. Out of deference to popular sentiment then, the candidates ought to start addressing themselves in a more ecumenical fashion, to "the poor and the middle class...