Reagan’s belief in “supply-side economics” overturned the economic justification of the liberal consensus, which was based on the idea that helping poorer people, those on the “demand side,” would expand the economy. Instead, Reagan’s people argued that cutting taxes on wealthier Americans would free up capital for them to reinvest in businesses

In 1968, Nixon’s team offered voters a candidate weak on policy but big on carefully curated images of traditional America under siege from “others.” His campaign contrasted powerfully with the chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the New Left squared off against the Democratic establishment. There, in August, Chicago

Nixon’s media handlers vowed to reach voters by emotion rather than reason. “Voters are basically lazy,” one wrote. “Reason requires a high degree of discipline, of concentration; impression is easier…. The emotions are more easily roused, closer to the surface, more malleable.”[1] Those handlers needed to create an “other,” and they had an obvious

“The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities.”[10]

“Democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself,” he later explained. “That, in its essence, is Fascism—ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”

Reagan’s belief in “supply-side economics” overturned the economic justification of the liberal consensus, which was based on the idea that helping poorer people, those on the “demand side,” would expand the economy. Instead, Reagan’s people argued that cutting taxes on wealthier Americans would free up capital for them to reinvest in businesses

In 1968, Nixon’s team offered voters a candidate weak on policy but big on carefully curated images of traditional America under siege from “others.” His campaign contrasted powerfully with the chaos of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the New Left squared off against the Democratic establishment. There, in August, Chicago

Nixon’s media handlers vowed to reach voters by emotion rather than reason. “Voters are basically lazy,” one wrote. “Reason requires a high degree of discipline, of concentration; impression is easier…. The emotions are more easily roused, closer to the surface, more malleable.”[1] Those handlers needed to create an “other,” and they had an obvious

“The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves—in their separate, and individual capacities.”[10]