Word: reaganisme
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A discrepancy has long existed between approval for Reagan as President and support for his policies. The gap was evident even during the 1984 re-election campaign, and it may be growing. Republican Phillips thinks that support remains stable for the general outline of Reaganism. But two years ago, says...
There has always been a certain legerdemain, if not hypocrisy, in Reagan's professed personal values. He preaches productivity and rugged individualism, but has always been something less than a workaholic. He preaches the sanctity of family, but is the only President to have been divorced. His relations with his...
Some Americans think that the Reagan Administration wishes to subvert civil liberties in the cause of a majoritarian orthodoxy, that Reaganism tilts too much toward democracy and away from freedoms. Democracy and freedom, fraternal twins and sibling rivals, do not always get along well with each other. The genius of...
The lesson that we should learn from the last decade of economic dislocation in the industrial North is not the Reaganism of "survival of the fittest." Instead, we should have learned that the whole country has a responsibility to ease the painful process of industrial/regional economic adjustment. The same economic...
Bush's decision to join the Loeb tribute highlights the battle that is already under way for the mantle of Reaganism. For five years Bush has acted as an unabashed cheerleader for Reagan's programs in an effort to shed the moderate taint that can destroy a Republican hopeful these...