End of the Reagan Narrative?
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Election 2012 may turn on whether Ronald Reagan’s narrative of evil
government and beneficent tax cuts for the rich has finally run its
course – and has been replaced by a new narrative demanding government
intervention to save the American middle-class, writes Robert Parry.
By Robert Parry
As yet another statue of Ronald Reagan is unveiled – a $1 million one
at Washington’s National Airport which was renamed in his honor in the
mid-1990s – the key question about the 40th president is whether his long and destructive era is finally coming to an end.
More than any other political figure, it was Ronald Reagan who put
America on its present course toward stunning income inequality and into
a brave new world of deregulated industries, which were then able to
exploit lax government controls to devastate the economy.
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