Reagan's Conservatism A Defining Force in American Politics

After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.” Like Roosevelt before ... Because that's what it was to be an American in the 1980's. We stood, again, for freedom. I know we always have, but in the past few years the ... Reagan redux did not care whom he bored, as long as nobody tried to stop him. His famous anecdotes, recounted with a speed and economy that were ... Still, Reagan's popularity went up in 1988 when he helped bring an end to the Cold War, a long period of tensions between the United States and the former ... First, don't underestimate Trump the way Democrats did to Ronald Reagan back in the day. Reagan had a lasting impact on American society after ... Reagan's economic legacy is mixed. On the one hand, tax reduction and a tightening of interest rates by the Federal Reserve led to a record period of peacetime ... In 1986 Reagan obtained an overhaul of the income tax code, which eliminated many deductions and exempted millions of people with low incomes. At the end of his ... Reagan's welfare reforms just made the poor poorer. When a three-year recession hit in 1980, six million more Americans fell into poverty. By ... Two years into Ronald Reagan's presidency, federal regulations go unenforced, incomes have decreased and social services were slashed. What isn't so easy to forgive is the Reagan Doctrine, sometimes known as Third World Rollback. Rollback was the American end of the proxy war ...