Word: reaganisme
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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But, say, the two political scientists. American voters are not really committed to the laissez-faire precepts of Reaganism. The "moral economy" of the country has shifted unalterably to the presumption that people are entitled to a certain level of state-guaranteed economic protection Reagan's victory was but a...
But this is a rather narrow and altogether too optimistic forecast. As Phillips recognizes, there are other groups at large on the political scene now, using their democratic freedoms for ends Piven and Cloward will never consider progressive. Mass political participation produced Martin Luther King--but also Howard Jarvis, George...
After the night when right-wingers dined on their discontents, Lofton proclaimed, "Reagan without Reaganism is the worst of both worlds." Perhaps his difficulty is in definitions. Kristol says of the new Secretary of State George Shultz: "He's not a Reaganite- but I don't know what...
But if the last year carries any lesson at all, it is that Reaganism means the betrayal of dreams. Indeed, it means the betrayal of some of the elemental ideals of the republic. It means a repudiation of what is noble in the American tradition of government, and its replacement...
We must all figure this program of greed and reaction at every turn. Only by raising voices of protest against all injustice and malevolence and misguidedness will the nation return to its true ideals. At the polls in November and through the mounting criticism of the Administration, we can revive...