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- noun not countable the specific conservative ideology associated with the Reagan administration, 1981-1989.
- noun a statement or position commonly associated with Ronald Reagan
Etymologies
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Examples
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This president – and indeed the entire movement of regressive politics these last three decades (which I refer to as Reaganism-Bushism) – can only be properly understood as class warfare.
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"This president - and indeed the entire movement of regressive politics these last three decades (which I refer to as Reaganism-Bushism) - can only be properly understood as class warfare.
One More Day 2009
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This Supreme Court argument was strictly about the facial challenge to the Public Records Act. "Trust, but verify" is a Reaganism, which is why McKenna and Scalia liked it so much.
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In 1980, George H.W. Bush called Reaganism "voodoo economics."
Poll: Hillary's "Experience" Argument And Obama's "Change" Argument Both Working 2009
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Congress, will try to expunge the latter-day variant called Reaganism, and might succeed.
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It is that modern version -- and warped policies that could be collectively called Reaganism -- that has given us an unfathomable national debt, a wide gulf between the nation's rich and poor, the denial of basic science on energy and the environment, and which was even used to justify an unjustifiable war in Iraq that the real Gipper himself would never undertaken.
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Next, under the influence of that cultural laughing gas known as Reaganism, Hollywood created a Vietnam mythos even more preposterous than the one chronicled above.
A Disneyland of Militant Ignorance: The American Normalization of Mass Murder. 2007
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It is that modern version - and warped policies that could be collectively called Reaganism - that has given us an unfathomable national debt, a wide gulf between the nation's rich and poor, the denial of basic science on energy and the environment, and which was even used to justify an unjustifiable war in Iraq that the real Gipper himself would never undertaken.
Attytood 2009
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It is that modern version - and warped policies that could be collectively called Reaganism - that has given us an unfathomable national debt, a wide gulf between the nation's rich and poor, the denial of basic science on energy and the environment, and which was even used to justify an unjustifiable war in Iraq that the real Gipper himself would never undertaken.
Attytood 2009
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"Reaganism" implies a deeply anti-democratic opposition to the welfare state, the labor movement, and indeed to any and all forms of public provision that empower the people, as distinct from economic elites.
Andrew Levine: Two Reaganite Presidents: Bill Clinton and Barack Obama Andrew Levine 2010
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