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The Triumph of the Right

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Section 27.01

I. Introduction

  1. 1988 Democratic Primaries, CQ Voting and Elections Collection, database accessed June 30, 2015.[]

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  2. Ronald Reagan, quoted in James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore(New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 152.[]

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  3. Robert O. Self, All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s (New York: Hill and Wang, 2012), 369.[]

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Section 27.02

II. Conservative Ascendance

  1. William F. Buckley, Jr., “Our Mission Statement,” National Review , November 19, 1955, http://​www​.nationalreview​.com/​article/​223549/​our​-mission​-statement​-william​-f​-buckley​-jr.[]

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  2. James Reston, “What Goldwater Lost: Voters Rejected His Candidacy, Conservative Cause and the G.O.P.,” New York Times , November 4, 1964, 23.[]

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  3. George Wallace, quoted in William Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War I I (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), 377.[]

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  4. James Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974(New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 735–736.[]

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  5. Lisa McGirr, S uburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 227–231.[]

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  6. Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everett Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?(Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1979), 53.[]

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  7. Walter Goodman, “Irving Kristol: Patron Saint of the New Right,” New York Times Magazine , December 6, 1981, http://​www​.nytimes​.com/​1981/​12/​06/​magazine/​irving​-kristol​-patron​-saint​-of​-the​-new​-right​.html.[]

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Section 27.03

III. The Election of 1980

  1. William Winpisinger, quoted in Cowie, Stayin’ Alive, 261.[]

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  2. Patterson, Restless Giant , 148.[]

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  3. Ibid.[][][][][]

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  4. Jimmy Carter, quoted in “Carter Tells of ‘Adultery in His Heart,’” Los Angeles Times , September 21, 1976, B6.[]

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  5. Joseph Crespino, “Civil Rights and the Religious Right,” in Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s , ed. Bruce J. Schulman and Julian Zelizer (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 103.[]

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  6. Patterson, Restless Giant , 163; Jon Nordheimer, “Reagan Is Picking His Florida Spots: His Campaign Aides Aim for New G.O.P. Voters in Strategic Areas,” New York Times , February 5, 1976, 24.[]

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  7. Sean Wilentz, T he Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 124.[]

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  8. Meg Jacobs and Julian Zelizer, Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981–1989: A Brief History with Documents(Boston: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2011), 2.[]

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  9. 1988 Democratic Primaries, CQ Voting and Elections Collection, database accessed June 30, 2015.[]

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Section 27.04

IV. The New Right in Power

  1. Ronald Reagan, quoted in Jacobs and Zelizer, Conservatives in Power , 20.[]

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  2. Jack Kemp, quoted in ibid., 21.[]

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  3. Wilentz, Age of Reagan , 121.[]

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  4. Jacobs and Zelizer, Conservatives in Power , 25–26.[]

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  5. Ronald Reagan, quoted in Neal, “Reagan Assails Carter,” 5[]

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  6. Stein, Pivotal Decade , 267.[]

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  7. Chafe, Unfinished Journey, 474.[]

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  8. Patterson, Restless Giant , 159.[]

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  9. Gil Troy, Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 67.[]

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  10. Chafe, Unfinished Journey, 476.[]

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  11. Ibid., 474.[]

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  12. Margaret Bush Wilson, quoted in Troy, Morning in America, 93.[]

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  13. Ibid., 210.[]

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  14. Ibid., 110.[]

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Section 27.05

V. Morning in America

  1. Patterson,Restless Giant, 163–164.[]

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  2. Troy, Morning in America, 208.[]

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  3. Chafe, Unfinished Journey, 477.[]

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  4. Patterson, Restless Giant, 162. The phrase “harsh medicine” became common shorthand to describe Volcker’s action on interest rates. See, for instance, Art Pine, “Letting Harsh Medicine Work,” Washington Post, October 14, 1979, G1.[]

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  5. Patterson, Restless Giant, 189.[]

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  6. Ibid.[][][][][]

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  7. Ibid., 190–191.[]

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  8. Troy, Morning in America, 210; Patterson, Restless Giant, 165.[]

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  9. Patterson, Restless Giant, 173–174.[]

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  10. Ibid., 171.[]

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Section 27.06

VI. Race in Reagan’s America

  1. 1988 Democratic Primaries, CQ Voting and Elections Collection, database accessed June 30, 2015.[]

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  2. The State of Black America, 1990 (New York: National Urban League, 1990), 34.[]

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  3. Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (New York: Scribner, 1992), 102.[]

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  4. Ibid., 94.[]

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  5. Troy,Morning in America , 91.[]

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  6. American Social History Project, Who Built America? Vol. Two: Since 1877(New York: Bedford St. Martin’s, 2000), 723.[]

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  7. Patterson, Restless Giant, 172–173.[]

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Section 27.07

VII. Bad Times and Good Times

  1. Chafe, Unfinished Journey, 487.[]

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  2. Bruce Springsteen, “My Hometown,” Born in the USA (Columbia Records, 1984).[]

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  3. Chafe, Unfinished Journey, 489.[]

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  4. Patterson, Restless Giant, 175.[]

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Section 27.08

VIII. Culture Wars

  1. Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America (New York: Penguin, 2000), 337.[]

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  2. Richard Morin, “Harassment Consensus Grows,” Washington Post(December 18, 1992).[]

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  3. Ibid.[][][][][]

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  4. Self, All in the Family, 376–377.[]

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  5. Ibid., 387–388.[]

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  6. Ibid., 384.[]

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  7. Ibid., 389.[]

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Section 27.09

IX. The New Right Abroad

  1. Wilentz, Age of Reagan, 163.[]

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  2. Lou Cannon, “President Calls for ‘Crusade’: Reagan Proposes Plan to Counter Soviet Challenge,” Washington Post , June 9, 1982, A1.[]

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  3. Conservative newspaper columnist Charles Krauthammer coined the phrase “Reagan Doctrine.” See Wilentz, Age of Reagan , 157.[]

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  4. Patterson,Restless Giant , 205.[]

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  5. Laura Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974–1980(New York: Norton, 2010), 166–167.[]

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  6. Ronald Reagan, “Address to the Nation on United States Policy in Central America,” May 9, 1984. http://​www​.reagan​.utexas​.edu/​archives/​speeches/​1984/​50984h​.htm.[]

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  7. Frances FitzGerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000), 205.[]

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  8. Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Annual Dinner of the Conservative Political Action Conference,” March 1, 1985, http://​www​.presidency​.ucsb​.edu/​ws/​?pid​=​38274.[]

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  9. Lou Cannon, “Reagan Challenges Soviets to Dismantle Berlin Wall: Aides Disappointed at Crowd’s Lukewarm Reception,” Washington Post , June 13, 1987, A1.[]

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Section 27.10

X. Toward the New Millennium

  1. Bill Minutaglio, First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty(New York: Random House, 1999), 210–224.[]

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  2. Roger Simon, “How a Murderer and Rapist Became the Bush Campaign’s Most Valuable Player,” Baltimore Sun , November 11, 1990.[]

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  3. See especially Dan T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994(Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1996), 72–80.[]

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  4. Wilentz, Age of Reagan.[]

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  5. James F. Clarity, “End of the Soviet Union,” New York Times, December 26, 1991.[]

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  6. Francis Fukuyama, “The End of History?” National Interest (Summer 1989).[]

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  7. William Thomas Allison, The Gulf War, 1990–91 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), 145, 165.[]

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  8. Charles W. Dunn, The Presidency in the Twenty-First Century(Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011), 152.[]

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  9. Robert M. Collins,Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan Years (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009), 171, 172.[]

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  10. On Clinton’s presidency and the broader politics of the 1990s, see James T. Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005); and Wilentz, Age of Reagan.[]

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  11. Patterson, Restless Giant , 298–299.[]

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  12. United Nations International Organization for Migration, “Migrant Deaths Remain High Despite Sharp Fall in US-Mexico Border Crossings in 2017,” press release, February 6, 2018, https://​news​.un​.org/​en/​story/​2018/​02/​1002101.[]

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  13. Carolyn Skorneck, “Final Welfare Bill Written,” Washington Post , July 30, 1996, A1.[]

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  14. Frank Newport, “Clinton Receives Record High Job Approval Rating,” Gallup, December 24, 1998, http://​news​.gallup​.com/​poll/​4111/​clinton​-receives​-record​-high​-job​-approval​-rating​-after​-impeachment​-vot​.aspx.[]

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Section 27.11

XI. Conclusion

  1. See Patterson, Restless Giant.[]

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  2. Jacobs and Zelizer, Conservatives in Power, 32.[]

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  3. Patterson, Restless Giant, 186.[]

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  4. Ibid., 164.[]

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  5. Ibid., 166.[]

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  6. Chafe, Unfinished Journey, 488.[]

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  7. Jacobs and Zelizer, Conservatives in Power, 31.[]

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  8. Patterson, Restless Giant, 158.[]

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