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...fellow at Stanford’s public policy research center, the Hoover Institution, and former senior policy analyst for the Reagan administration, D’Souza has often generated criticism from the left for his controversial views, including his critique of affirmative action and his defense of colonialism and slavery [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
...song was the titular track on Springsteen’s 1984 album “Born in the U.S.A.,” released to mass commercial and critical appeal in the midst of the 1984 Mondale-Reagan presidential campaign. In the wake of this success, conservative columnist George Will wrote a column entitled “Yankee Doodle Springsteen,” praising the positive attitude of a song where “problems always [seem] punctuated by a grand, cheerful affirmation: ‘Born in the U.S.A.!’” Apparently the Reagan-era deficits...
...Will’s connections to President Reagan’s re-election campaign, staffers there made inquiries to Springsteen’s management about a possible endorsement. They politely declined the invitation, but the story doesn’t stop there; at a campaign stop in Hammonton, N.J., Reagan spoke about “America’s future,” a future that “rests in the message of hop in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen.” The Gipper shouting out to the Boss...
...result, the political-advertising phenomenon of 2006: almost all of the best ads this year, in both the Senate and House races, have been Democratic counterpunches. Of course, it is easier to strike back at an exhausted opponent, and 2006 may be remembered as the year that the Reagan Revolution finally crested and began to recede...
...Ronald Reagan's Republican revolution vowed fiscal restraint, national security and morality. Today's G.O.P. has brought heavy spending, an apparent spawning ground for terrorists and a sex scandal. Readers debated the party's fortunes and whether our cover image captured its predicament...