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title: "Ronald Reagan"
source: https://www.jemoka.com/posts/kbhronald_raegan/
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Ronald Reagan is a president of the United States. He rises a wave of the New Right.
Comes out of Hollywood and was CA governor Reagan was a democrat, but McCarthyism lead him Reagan was an FBI informer for McCarthyism investigations Reagan was the first two-term president since 1961, was able to maintain more power compared to others &ldquo;The Great Communicator&rdquo; Reagan politics &ldquo;Government isn&rsquo;t the solution to the problem, its the problem.&rdquo;
wished for limited politics states rights condemned welfare and &ldquo;welfare cheats&rdquo; (the undertone of racist appeal) Evangelical undertones, family values, moral majority Against affirmative action Supply-side economics: &ldquo;getting rid of taxes will allow more people to spend&rdquo; Anti-Soviet rhetoric Creates the largest increase in welfare spending, gutting about $1.5Bn.
Reagan policy changes Lowering taxes: 70% of tax to 28% of taxes Increase defense budget: 1 trillion to 3 trillion Rising inequality, 1% controlled 40% of wealth (double from the 1970s) Reagan Foreign Policy Ronald Reagan creates the largest military build-up in history (larger than Korea and Vietnam.)
Reasserted Command-in-Chief abilities Creates the National Security Council (for whom the ) Comitted the US to supporting the anti-Marxist insurrections around the world Credited with falling the USSR Supreme Court Interview Process A new interview process for the supreme court designed by Ronald Reagan, creating an extensive process to vet conservative. Reagan swapped out 50% of the Federal judicial process.
Reagan&rsquo;s Legacy Inflation dropped
USSR Collapse
Military complex expanded
Incomes rose
Inequality widened
Welfare slashed
Debt
Concentrated power in the white house
Centralized conservative agenda
