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In the 1980s, President Ronald Reagan rejuvenated the conservative Republican ideology, with tax cuts, greatly increased defense spending, deregulation, a policy of rolling back communism, a greatly strengthened military and appeals to family values and conservative Judeo-Christian morality.
Bassist in glam metal band Mr. Big and hard rock supergroup The Winery Dogs: Don Dokken: 1953 - Lead singer and founder of glam metal band Dokken [250] Ross the Boss: 1954 - Founding member of proto-punk band The Dictators and heavy metal band Manowar [251] Martin O'Donnell: 1955 - Video game composer [252] Glenn Danzig: 1955 -
Democratic and Republican Party elites and elected officials became more divided on the issue of abortion in the 1980s. Still, Ronald Reagan ran and won the election in 1980, stating he was against all abortions except for saving the life of the mother. He firmly supported Roe v. Wade being overturned and a constitutional amendment banning ...
During the 1980 presidential campaign, Gov. Reagan called for the total elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, severe curtailment of bilingual education, and massive cutbacks in the federal role in education. [citation needed] When Reagan was elected in 1980, the federal share of total education spending was 12 percent. When he left ...
Movement conservatives embraced an anti-regulation and anti-union message as part of their appeal to business interests, with whom they had common ground in terms of tax policy. [21] For example, in 1958 Barry Goldwater referred to influential union leader Walter Reuther as a "more dangerous menace than the Sputnik or anything Soviet Russia ...
In 1960, the economist Friedrich Hayek, who many people would describe as politically conservative, wrote an essay titled, "Why I Am Not A Conservative," in which he argued that conservatives had ...
In hip hop music, political hip hop, or political rap, is a form developed in the 1980s, inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. Public Enemy were the first political hip hop group to gain commercial success. [ 1 ]
Conservatives outside of the organization have also offered their support. Sen. Mike Lee called Project 2025 a blueprint to “return power back to the states and the American people.”