The Principles Of A Reagan Conservative, Dr. Paul Kengor

Starting during the 1970s, factions of American conservatives slowly came together to form a new and more radical dissenting conservative movement, the New Right. The New Right was just as radical as its liberal opposite, with agendas to increase government involvement beyond the established conservative view of government’s role. Although New Right politicians made admirable advances to dissemble New Deal economic policies, the movement as a whole counters conservativism and the ideologies that America was founded on. Although the New Right adopts conservative economic ideologies, its social agenda weakened the conservative movement by focusing public attention to social and cultural issues that have no place within the established Old

The Reagan Doctrine was the foreign policy in the United States, legislated by President Ronald Reagan. This doctrine was design to eliminate the communist governments in Africa, Asia, and Latin America that were indorsed and validated by the Soviet Union. This assignment will summarize how the United States provided open and private support to guerrilla and resistance movements during the Regan years. In addition, explicate the diplomatic doctrine specific events that occurred in Afghanistan when the Soviet Union invaded. Finally, this assignment will describe the advantages and disadvantages based on the Regan Doctrine. Summarize The Situation of U.S. Diplomatic of The Regan Doctrine Throughout the opening years of the Cold War, Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, and Jimmy Carter all sanctioned policies against communism in order to contain it. Ronald Regan rejected their détente policy in 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. This alone proved that policies that only contain communism were ineffective. Regan disapproved in the compromise policy when it came to any communist government. Instead, Reagan proposed the Rollback strategy. The making of the Reagan Doctrine shifted from containment and spreading to eliminating all current communist governments. Furthermore, the United States wanted to increase and encourage democracy and capitalism in replacement of ousted communistregimes (Conservapedia, 2012).Implementation of the Regan Doctrine was to provide

In 1980, the United States was emerging from a troubled decade. The 1970s had been marked by an ugly end to the Vietnam War, the demoralizing Watergate spectacle, rampant inflation, unemployment and an energy crisis. The Soviets had just invaded Afghanistan, rejuvenating

However, in the 1960s, prosperity was becoming too far out of reach. The Cold War and the Korean War were very costly in military spending. It had taken its toll on the economy. Even with more people buying, the economy was growing at a very slow rate. There were also millions of Americans who were still living in poverty, and the economy had gone into recession quite a few times in the 60s. Then, the stock market fell dramatically, the worst it had been since the Depression. Kennedy addressed this by making tax cuts for larger business, which helped the economy develop and grow more prosperous in the years to come. However, inflation made a reappearance

President Richard M. Nixon’s administration had to face many international and domestic challenges in the United States between 1968 and 1974, some positive and some negative. His achievements in expanding peaceful relationships with both China and the Soviet Union are contrastingly different with his continuation of the Vietnam War. In the end, Nixon’s scandals and abuse of presidential power caught up to him, and his administration did much to corrode America’s faith in the government.

Ronald Reagan is often regarded as one of the best presidents of the United States of America. He is rewarded with restoring hope to the American people, breaking down the Soviet Union, reviving the American economy, and reestablishing trust between the American people and the American government. Much less known to the American people is the fact of how religious Regan was. In Paul Kengor’s book God and Ronald Reagan: a Spiritual Life, Kengor explores just how spiritual Regan was not only during his presidency, but during his entire life and how it led to success in Regan’s life.

Liberals had dominated American society for most of the 1900s. The 1960s was widely known for being the age of counterculture, social reforms, and liberals. The era witnessed many advancements like racial equality such as the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a strong advancement in political liberalism, and a significant increase in the power and influence of government-funded social programs as a result of Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society reforms. Beginning with the election of Nixon, however, followed a gradual return to conservatism whether religiously, politically, or economically. The resurgence of conservatism in American politics and government in the years 1964-2005, was caused in

Beginning in the 1960s the conservative middle-class, living in the suburbs, called for an end to the New Deal and the moral decay of their country. Recognizing the liberal movement’s inability to organize, and agree on issues, right wing activists began to mobilize. Although split between social conservatives and libertarians the right was able to unify on common ground and change the direction their nation was headed. In Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, McGirr argues that this movement, centered in Orange County, would begin a new era of a return to traditional values and would be successful as a result of organization, faith, and a fierce dedication to what these middle-class Americans believed to be morally right.

Prior to Reagan’s inauguration the country was suffering from double-digit inflation, high interest rates, high unemployment, oil shortages, and

Ronald “Dutch” Reagan was President of the United States from 1980 to 1988. His Presidency is one that is of great debate currently, with many current crises in the world having to do with the same subjects that Reagan dealt with during his terms as President. Reagan was a man that came from very little and never intended to achieve greatness, and whom greatness was very much thrust upon. His life reads almost like a movie, with so many tiny crucial threads of detail coming together over the duration of his life that led him to what he became. Ronald Reagan was a man whom the generalization of just another president does a tremendous disservice. A man of the people, his life, beliefs and political ideology were shaped by those whom he was surrounded by throughout his life. Beginning from a young age, Dutch would have many trials and tribulations that would set him on his path to becoming one of the most memorable presidents to date.

Beginning with the creation of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, up to the current Obama doctrine, presidential doctrines have dominated United States foreign policy. A presidential doctrine highlights the goals and positions for United States foreign affairs outlined by the sitting president. Many of the country’s major foreign policy successes or disasters can be explained by tracing the doctrines of sitting or previous presidents and analyzing their evolution and eventual impact on world events. After established, a presidential doctrine often takes on a life of its own. This can be explained by the military resources and human capital involved in carrying out these doctrines. Future presidents often feel compelled to abide by previous doctrines, or find the reality of change can only be done with incremental changes over a period of years. For this reason, presidential doctrines often outlive their creators and consequently effect American foreign policy for years to come.

The average U.S. citizens could not afford these rates and it played a role in the fall of the Economy. The huge inflation, and the recession that followed, ruined many businesses and damaged countless individuals. Even if Nixon received the Vietnam War and the recession from President Lyndon Johnson, President Richard Nixon still supported this expensive war. Over the decade processing into the late 70s, chairmen’s would constantly change leadership roles and different money restrictions would be implemented into law. The recession would dissipate, but the inflation would still linger into the late 80s.

After the civil rights movement the newly coined “New Religious Right” took over the political scene over it’s stance on the morality of the newly administered sex educations in certain schools and the possible federal education laws that would follow. The previous accepted method of political liberalism, blocking religion as a major influence in government and public policy had now become null in the minds of the conservative right. Ironically enough, after this mass of evangelicals flocked to make up the new republican far right, Jimmy Carter was elected President as an openly born-again evangelical (Hankin pg. 141). The general rule of not mixing religion and politics in America still stood, but with the surge of religious animosity over public policy issues

In the book, “The Fractured Republic” the author, Yuval Levin tells of how he is a strong conservative, but he looks at both sides of our country's dysfunctional political polar division in this perceptive look at the country’s acute crisis of social fragmentation. This book describes how striving for a finer future means to not glamorize the past. In Levin’s view he believed conservative values seemed to come from the early 1980’s, more specifically 1981. The year Ronald Reagan was put into office as President of the United States. On the other hand the Democrats hold onto the year 1965. At this point Lyndon B Johnson campaign against poverty and racial injustice was booming. Levin argues that neither party has the direct answer to the most pressing contemporary challenges facing the US.

The 1970’s economy was corroded to the breaking point due to the clout of the unions. Edward Heaths Conservative government was plagued by continuous strikes that led to the declaration of the three-day working week. Inflation was rising as high as 24%, with one million