Word: reaganization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Labels don't do justice to the division of opinion," he says. "You have lunch-pail Democrats, Reagan Democrats who are very liberal on economic issues but tend to be social conservatives...
There is, in addition, growing evidence that the level of labor market discrimination faced by African-Americans rose during the 1980s. Contrary to much popular perception, the Reagan-Bush years of assault on affirmative action and other aspects of civil rights enforcement were also an era when young college-educated blacks lost ground relative to whites. This is true both for earnings and for prospects of employment. Yet this was a time of narrowing black-white gaps in skill and achievement. I am persuaded by political economist Martin Carnoy's claim in his important book Faded Dreams, that Reagan-Bush...
Indeed, Harvard has itself endorsed this assessment of late 20th-century thought. In an interview with Perspective, the campus liberal monthly, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III links the current political climate on campus to "Reagan-era pragmatism." Today's students, according to Epps, eschew protest in favor of service: "They do have a con-science, they want to help those less fortunate, but their methods will be more pragmatic and not filled with risk-taking...
...current strategy of See Evil, Hear Evil, Speak No Evil prevails, Republicans must be prepared for the possibility that Clinton's approval ratings will continue to hit Reagan-like plateaus. Further, by remaining silent, Republicans risk sacrificing their claim to leadership of the Moral Majority/family values wing of the party. The squandering of this opportunity could set-off a Bible-thumping revolt in the big tent...
...appointment to the court to become George Bush's solicitor general, the lawyer who argues Administration positions before the Supreme Court. As solicitor general, he was considered by liberals to be an improvement over Charles Fried, who had been accused by them of politicizing the job to pursue the Reagan agenda on such issues as abortion, the rights of the accused and affirmative action. All the same, when a seat opened up on the Supreme Court in 1990, Starr was too well known as an opponent of abortion rights, and yet too moderate for the Republican right wing...