Word: wildernessã
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Dates: during 2004-2004
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...group of disillusioned former Democrats (many of them former Marxists), mostly from New York and northern California, spent these “wilderness?? years in think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute. Together, they crafted what would become neo-conservatism—an attack on Jimmy’s Carter weakness, but mainly a new conservative agenda to end arms control, rebuild the military, aid anti-Communists and thus (they believed) defeat the Soviet Union. This was the coherent policy vision Ronald Reagan could consistently embrace; this was the program the voters...
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