The Power of Reaganism How Reagan Inspired the Republican Party

James Earl Carter Jr. was the 39th U.S. president, elected as a Democrat displacing the incumbent Republican, Gerald Ford, in 1976. Carter would ... As a result, it was Nixon, not Reagan or Trump, who first triggered the flight of White working-class voters from the party of Franklin D. Then-Governor Ronald Reagan joined Face the Nation in 1975 to talk about whether or not he would challenge President Gerald Ford for the ... 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 to 1945) · 2. Woodrow Wilson (1913 to 1921) · 3. Ronald Reagan (1981 to 1989) · 4. George W. Bush (2001 to 2009) · 5. Barack Obama ( ... Spend any time at Tea Party meetings and one thing you learn pretty quickly is that Tea Party activists are far quicker to criticize than ... Author Max Boot on Ronald Reagan's legacy, the roots of Trumpism, and how the Great Communicator opened the door to the far right. Ronald Reagan won the Republican Presidential nomination in 1980 and chose as his running mate former Texas Congressman and United Nations Ambassador George ... 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. The most obvious evidence of this is the rise of Donald Trump, a man who is the antithesis of so much that Ronald Reagan stood for: intellectual ...