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Lesson 3: Presidential historyWhich Reagan policies are still debated today?
The Reagan revolution marked a shift in American politics, advocating for less government intervention. This idea continued with Newt Gingrich and Bill Clinton, but has lost favor recently. Today, other issues dominate political conversations, moving away from Reagan's original vision.
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How Reagan's policies evolved into today when Reagan was was making the case for a basically they called it the Reagan Revolution?(2 votes)
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- [Instructor] How has the debate over Reagan's policies evolved into today? - When Reagan was making the case for, basically, they called
it the Reagan revolution, because it was a real departure from the way the federal
government had been existing in American life. The debate had mostly
been between Democrats and Republicans over to how
best manage the government. Ronald Reagan came in and said no. Just get government out
of the conversation. That has continued to
bounce along in politics, there was the most major
fight on those lines with Newt Gingrich and
president Bill Clinton. Since then, there have been pockets of it, but the appetite for deficit reduction, for shrinking government
in order to make sure that the bills are paid by government, has kind of gone out
of favor in Washington. It was a very big deal during the '90s and during the first 10 years of this century, but it has not really been as much a part of the conversation in
politics as it once was. It once dominated the way
people talked about government. Now there are other things that are taking the conversation away.