Within the fashionable understanding of American historical past, President Ronald Reagan’s tenure in workplace marked the start of a brand new period for the Republican Occasion and American politics. His presidency served as a blueprint for subsequent GOP politicians and even helped encourage a tack to the middle amongst the New Democrats.
However in “Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics In The Nineties,” historian Nicole Hemmer argues that Reagan’s presidency is healthier understood as the top of a political period within the GOP.
On this installment of the FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, Galen Druke talks to Hemmer about her new ebook and her research of post-Reagan GOP figures like Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh.
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