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The white South has voted Republican at the presidential level since the 1950s and at the state and local level since the 1990s. 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 ...
Conservative sentiment was growing, in part due to a disgust at the excesses of the sexual revolution and the failure of liberal policies such as the War on Poverty to deliver on their promises. President Jimmy Carter 's prospects for reelection in the U.S. presidential election of 1980 were strengthened when he easily beat back a primary ...
publishes weekly conservative videos which have garnered over 2 billion total views [461] Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation: founded in 1970 gives millions of dollars to conservative organizations [141] Scaife Foundations: founded in 2014 financially supports Republican-leaning think tanks [462] [455] Searle Freedom Trust: founded in 1998
President Obama chides Mitt Romney for calling Russia, and not Al Qaeda, the No. 1 threat to the United
Conservative Republicans, who had never fully accepted Bush despite his move towards the right during the 1980s, were outraged by the deal. [ 28 ] Adding to the administration's challenges, the country entered a recession in 1990, with the national unemployment rate rising to 7.8%. [ 29 ]
In the following decades, conservative policies once considered outside the political mainstream—such as reducing welfare, privatizing Social Security, deregulating banking, considering preemptive war, were taken seriously and sometimes passed into law due in part to the work of the Hoover Institution, the Heritage Foundation, the Cato ...
Conservative groups, too, had viewed the film as a potential threat to support for nuclear deterrence, or the policy of letting the nukes do the talking: Their very existence and the potential to ...
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 ...