Reaganism

is a return to old-fashioned republicanism grounded in large tax cuts for the rich, less government help for the poor, weaker enforcement of civil rights, fewer controls on industry, less protection for the poor, weaker enforcement of civil rights, fewer controls on industry, less protection for the environment, and emotional rhetoric on the virtues of hard work, family, religion, individualism, and patriotism.

The historian Robert Dallek defines Reaganism as a 'return to old-fashioned Republicanism large tax cuts for the rich, less government help for the poor, weaker enforcement of civil rights, fewer controls on industry, less protection for the poor, weaker enforcement of civil rights, fewer controls on industry, less protection for the environment, and emotional rhetoric on the virtues of hard work, family, religion, individualism, and patriotism' (1984: vii-viii).

is friendly fascism. It embraced a paramount fascist objective suppressing the labor movement and then reconfiguring the relation between big business and the state in ways that secure the interests of both.

As Reaganism took shape, Bertram Gross wrote about what he called 'friendly fascism.' By calling it 'fascism,' his point was that Reaganism embraced a paramount fascist objective suppressing the labor movement and then reconfiguring the relation between Big Business and the State in ways that secure the interests of both. . . ..By 'friendly,' he meant that it did this without the blatant illiberalism and organized violence associated with the fascist movements of the inter-war period (and their successors). It helped that Ronald Reagan seemed warm and amiable, but this was not the main point.

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