Washington Post on A16

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Apr 20 10:38:18 PDT 2000



>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



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