The Reagan Lesson for the Trumpian Right on Ukraine and China

5/22/23
 
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from The Wall Street Journal,
5/19/23:

Inflation has been running at its highest rate in decades. American society is restive and divided. There’s a public perception that the country’s glory days are over, that democratic capitalism is a spent force. U.S. standing and influence abroad are in decline. America not long ago withdrew in disgrace from one of the longest wars in its history. A communist superpower appears ascendant and is building up military force at a ferocious pace.

William Inboden could be talking about today, but he’s describing the world in 1981, when Ronald Reagan became president.

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