Word: reaganization
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...reason is that Latinos, it turns out, do vote. And they have visited retribution on the California Republican Party for the attacks of 1994. The Latino share of the California electorate has nearly doubled this decade, and the portion of it going to Republicans has collapsed. In 1984 Ronald Reagan won 48% of the Latino vote in California. In 1996 Bob Dole got 6%, and Latinos swept Democrats into control of the state assembly. Internal Republican surveys note that by 2020, Latinos will constitute nearly 40% of the California population. Last fall, longtime G.O.P. strategist Stuart Spencer warned that unless...
Perhaps a President's life after the White House is the real manifestation of his character. Consider the interesting case of Jimmy Carter. Buried, after one term, in the Ronald Reagan landslide of 1980, widely scorned as the micromanager of malaise held hostage by the Ayatullah, Carter in his post-White House incarnation performed a cunning reversal. An engineer by training, he did not so much reinvent himself as reconstruct, in another dimension, the job from which the American people had fired...
Brinkley captures Carter's sometimes maddening authenticity--his commitment as a Christian, his moral clarity, stubbornness, occasional nastiness. But Brinkley often falls into the organ tones of hagiography, as if performing an oratorio for a living saint. (Every saint needs a Satan: Ronald Reagan comes off here, almost invariably, as an idiot and a disastrous President...
...Carter's presidential term a group of federal agencies submitted Global 2000 Report to the President. It was strongly neo-Malthusian, predicting environmental degradation, overpopulation, shrinking resources and vast increases in poverty unless there were technological breakthroughs and international action. The Carter Administration passed the report on to Ronald Reagan, who ignored it. The doomsayers could not have foreseen the collapse of the Soviet Union, the retreat of the welfare state in most parts of the world, the full impact of the global market or the resurgence of the American economy...
...born-again Christian and registered Republican; but I knew him beyond that, they didn't. Even as a Republican, he denounced Gingrich's Contract with America, throwing it across the stage. Sent the crowd wild. Like in the early years, he would do wild things, like challenging Ronald Reagan to a duel in the streets. He knew how to grab the imagination of the people! And that's just one of the many reasons I truly respected...