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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 ...
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 ...
The ninth edition in the Mandate series, Mandate for Leadership 2025: The Conservative Promise, was published in April 2023, its earliest publication before the presidential election. Edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves, it has 30 chapters and is over 900 pages in length. [20] This document provides the policy agenda for Project 2025. [21]
President Obama chides Mitt Romney for calling Russia, and not Al Qaeda, the No. 1 threat to the United
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 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 ...
Andersen Consulting was once one of the top names in professional services. The firm rebranded to Accenture in 2000, and its parent company went bust following the Enron scandal.