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...foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution,” McCain protests, brandishing his American Conservative Union lifetime rating of 83 percent, compared to eight percent for Sen. Barack Obama. Still, conservatives charge insubordination: The maverick pulls his punches with his Democratic opponents, yet pummels his Republican allies. To win the Right’s trust, he must fight for it, not against...
...Ronald Reagan uttered another line in that 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter that has entered the history books: "There you go again," he chastised his opponent. What's less well remembered is what that was in response to. Carter had been making the case for national health insurance and said Reagan had once opposed Medicare. Reagan objected that Carter was misrepresenting his position - he had simply opposed a particular Medicare bill. But Carter was absolutely right that Reagan wasn't for universal health care - or for any other government effort to socialize risk...
...seminal PBS series Free to Choose, which aired in 1980 and may have helped set the mood for Reagan's victory, economist Milton Friedman argued that economic freedom was just as important as all those freedoms written into the Bill of Rights. This went on to become perhaps the most consistent theme of the Reagan economic era: giving Americans the freedom to succeed or fail on their own economically was a good thing. And it is probably a good thing. But not an unmitigated good. Economic security matters to Americans too. And finding ways to offer more...
...really, is to accept what works about the existing U.S. economy and attack what doesn't. Reagan never dismantled the core elements of the New Deal, and the new President needs to take care not to thwart the dynamism unleashed by Reagan. But putting off change won't be an option much longer...
Clinton also removed the word welfare from America's political lexicon. In the mid-1980s, when pollsters conducted focus groups with Reagan Democrats, they found that when they talked about government help for the needy, voters saw it as welfare: taking money from whites to give to undeserving blacks. That attitude was hugely unfair, but it was a political reality. Clinton changed that when he reformed welfare in 1996. By making it brutally clear that people who didn't work wouldn't get much help from Washington, he made it harder for Republicans to tag Democratic antipoverty programs as handouts...