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[Brad De Long]

>Brad De Long wrote:
>
>>Hope so. But you can never tell in advance. I thought we were 
>>stronger than Reagan, too...
>
>Who's "we"? And why did you think that? The U.S. elite was clearly 
>moving rightwards from the mid-1970s onwards. Carter gave us a 
>balanced budget, the mandated 3% real increase in yearly military 
>spending, and Paul Volcker - but still that wasn't enough. The 
>employing class was clearly sick of unions, and the warrior class 
>were pushing Team B and the Committee on the Present Danger. Reagan 
>was the natural outgrowth of all that. What were the counter-forces?
>
>Doug

The fact that I thought the guys and gals in Macomb County would vote 
against Reagan because they would realize that he was not their 
friend?

Brad DeLong