Ronald Reagan's Conservative Agenda A Party that Shaped History

The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent, Ronald Reagan. Abstract. The results of the 1980 elections encouraged high hopes among Republicans that their party's long period of minority status was at last reaching a ... In his new biography, Max Boot reckons with the president who was once his hero and another who led him away from the Republican Party. Millard Fillmore, a member of the Whig party, was the 13th President of ... Ronald Reagan · George H. W. Bush · William J. Clinton · George W. Bush · Barack ... James Earl Carter Jr. was the 39th U.S. president, elected as a Democrat displacing the incumbent Republican, Gerald Ford, in 1976. Carter would ... (“Pat”) Brown (who had defeated Nixon's challenge in 1962), ridiculed Reagan's lack of experience, declaring that while he (Brown) had been serving the public, ... ” Max Boot explains how Ronald Reagan's rise as a Republican star ... Did Ronald Reagan accidentally create Trump's MAGA Republican Party? Reagan viewed the New Deal, which he'd once supported, as “fascism.” He raised preposterous fears about the Soviet capture of Hollywood, and fed ... How did Ronald Reagan's Republican Party become former President Donald Trump's? That is a question asked by many of the GOP faithful. Ronald Reagan would not have recognized the Republican party today. He would be dumbfounded. I know this though: He would stand up.