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27. “Roadmap 2.0,” 17.
28. See “The Path to Prosperity: A Blueprint for American Renewal,” 45–56, accessed at http://budget.house.gov/prosperity/fy2013.htm.
29. The idea was not forgotten. In one televised debate for the 2012 nomination, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich criticized Romney for not lowering capital gains taxes enough, saying offhandedly “we all know the optimal capital gains rate is zero.”
30. “The Path to Prosperity,” 35–44.
31. Ibid., 66.
32. Ibid., 52–53.
33. Pew Research Center, “Beyond Red vs. Blue Political Typology,” 4 May 2011 (copy on file with author).
34. Ibid., 109.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid., 106.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid., 13.
40. Ibid., 108.
41. Ibid., 109.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid., 28.
44. Ibid., 100.
45. Ibid., 108.
46. Ibid., 54.
47. Ibid., 31.
48. Ibid., 110.
49. Ibid., 111.
50. Ibid., 110.
51. See Ron Elving, “GOP’s ‘We Built This’ Theme Both Puzzling and Telling,” NPR, 31 August 2012, www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2012/08/31/160370383/gops-we-built-it-refrain-is-both-puzzling-and-telling.
52. Michael Shear and Michael Barbaro, “In Video Clip, Romney Calls 47% ‘Dependent’ and Feeling Entitled,” New York Times, 17 September 2012, http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/romney-faults-those-dependent-on-government.
53. Information in this paragraph is taken from a 2012 CNN exit poll, available at www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president/.
54. “Growth and Opportunity Project,” Republican National Committee, 2013, accessed at http://goproject.gop.com/rnc_growth_opportunity_book_2013.pdf.
55. See Page Gardner, “The Rising American Electorate: Game Changers in 2016 Elections,” Huffington Post, 29 June 2015, www.huffingtonpost.com/page-gardner/the-rising-american-elect_b_7688610.html.
56. John Judis and Ruy Teixeira, The Emerging Democratic Majority (New York: Scribner, 2002).
57. “Growth and Opportunity Project,” 7–8.
58. Robert Jones and Daniel Cox, “2013 Hispanic Values Survey,” Public Religion Research Institute, executive summary, www.prri.org/research/hispanic-values-survey-2013.
59. “Expanding Opportunity in America,” House Budget Committee, 24 July 2014, accessed at http://budget.house.gov/uploadedfiles/expanding_opportunity_in_america.pdf.
60. Paul Ryan, “Renewing the American Idea,” 15 July 2014, delivered at the Kirby Center of Hillsdale College, accessed at http://paulryan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=387848#.U9FLh_mwJvC.
61. Paul Ryan, “A Better Way Up From Poverty,” Wall Street Journal, 15 August 2014, www.wsj.com/articles/paul-ryan-a-better-way-up-from-poverty-1408141154.
62. Sahil Kapur, “Ted Cruz to GOP: Shut Down the Government or You’re Voting for Obamacare,” Talking Points Memo, 23 September 2013, http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/ted-cruz-to-gop-shut-down-the-government-or-you-re-voting-for-obamacare.
63. Burgess Everett, “Cruz Warns McConnell on Debt Ceiling,” Politico, 20 October 2015, www.politico.com/story/2015/10/default-republicans-cruz-mcconnell-214978.
64. Fred Barbash, “Bad Blood: John Boehner and His Tormentor Ted Cruz,” Washington Post, 28 September 2015, www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/28/bad-blood-john-boehner-and-the-tormenter-he-called-jackass-ted-cruz/?utm_term=.c046ceddd799.
65. Tony Lee, “Ted Cruz Urges Boldness in Acceptance Speech for Claremont Institute’s Churchill Award,” Breitbart.com, 19 March 2014, www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/03/19/ted-cruz-receives-claremont-institute-s-churchill-award-urges-boldness-over-timidity-in-troubled-times.
66. Ted Cruz, Claremont Institute address, quoted in Henry Olsen, “Forget the Alamo,” National Review, 20 October 2014, www.nationalreview.com/article/390811/forget-alamo-henry-olsen. Material from this article is used in this and the following paragraph with permission.
67. See Olsen, “Day of the Democratic Dead.”
68. The material discussing the impact of the Muslim ban and the role of the concepts of citizenship and nationalism in Trump’s appeal is taken from Henry Olsen, “Trump’s Faction,” National Review, 9 May 2016, accessed at https://eppc.org/publications/trumps-faction (used with permission).
69. Bush dealt with this criticism by saying the nominee had to be willing to “lose the primary to win the general” election. Peter Sullivan, “Jeb Bush: Republicans Have to ‘Lose the Primary to Win the General,’” The Hill.com, 2 December 2014, http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/225681-jeb-bush-lose-the-primary-to-win-the-general.
70. See the 2016 exit polls for Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin on CNN.com, www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls.
71. Henry Olsen, “Setting the Record Straight About the White Working Class,” 17 October 2013, The American, accessed at www.aei.org/publication/setting-the-record-straight-about-the-white-working-class.
72. See the national exit polls for 2012 and 2016 on CNN.com, www.cnn.com/election/2012/results/race/president/ (2012) and www.cnn.com/election/results/exit-polls (2016).
73. Between 2006 and 2016, the working-class counties that backed Trump had supported the Democrats Debbie Stabenow and Jennifer Granholm in Michigan, the Democrat Tammy Baldwin in Wisconsin, and the Republican Joni Ernst in Iowa. Demographically similar counties in other states had also backed women such as the Democrat Heidi Heitkamp in North Dakota, the Democrat Amy Klobuchar in Minnesota, and the Republicans Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins in Maine.
74. The counties in question are Dunn, Pepin, Buffalo, Trempealeau, Jackson, Lincoln, Price, Sawyer, Forest, Door, Vernon, Crawford, Grant, Richland, Adams, Sauk, Columbia, Lafayette, Racine, Kenosha, and Winnebago.
75. David Nir, “Daily Kos Elections’ Presidential Results by Congressional District for the 2016 and 2012 Elections,” 19 November 2016, DailyKos.com, www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/19/1163009/-Daily-Kos-Elections-presidential-results-by-congressional-district-for-the-2012-2008-elections.
76. Goldwater, Conscience, 8 (emphasis in original).
77. Ibid., 6.
78. Ibid., 66.
79. Martin Tolchin, “Retreat in Congress; The Catastrophic-Care Debacle—A Special Report; How the New Medicare Law Fell on Hard Times in a Hurry,” 9 October 1989, New York Times, www.nytimes.com/1989/10/09/us/retreat-congress-catastrophic-care-debacle-special-report-new-medicare-law-fell.html.
80. Ted Cruz, presidential announcement speech, accessed at www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-ted-cruzs-speech-at-liberty-university/2015/03/23/41c4011a-d168-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html?utm_term=.dbc9aef4bd39.
81. Ted Cruz, “A Simple Flat Tax for Economic Growth,” Wall Street Journal, 28 October 2015, www.wsj.com/articles/a-simple-flat-tax-for-economic-growth-1446076134.
82. Rob Portman, “Heading Off the Entitlement Meltdown,” Wall Street Journal, 21 July 2014, www.wsj.com/articles/rob-portman-heading-off-the-entitlement-meltdown-1405983479.
83. Reagan, speech to California Fertilizer Association.
84. David E. Rosenbaum, “Reagan’s ‘Safety Net’ Proposal: Who Will Land, Who Will Fall; News Analysis,” 17 March 1981, New York Times, www.nytimes.com/1981/03/17/us/reagan-s-safety-net-proposal-who-will-land-who-will-fall-news-analysis.html.
85. Mr. Alameda, a funeral home operator, passed away earlier this decade.
86. Christopher Chantrill, “Annual Federal Deficit Fiscal Years 1900 to 2020,” US Government Debt, www.usgovernmentdebt.us/spending_chart_1900_2020USp_XXs2li011tcn_G0f_Annual_Federal_Deficit.
87. Christopher Chantrill, “Combined Gross Public Debt Fiscal Years 1900 to 2020,” US Government Debt, www.usgovernmentdebt.us/spending_chart_1900_2020USp_XXs2li011tcn_H0sH0lH0f_Combined_Gross_Public_Debt.
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abortion, 139, 155, 172
Reagan and, 113, 165, 167, 295n70
Trump and, 251–52
Afghanistan, 160, 198, 222, 244
African Americans, 24, 25, 166, 201
California race relations, 78, 80
Reagan and, 77–80, 108, 112, 201
Rumford Act and, 107–8, 112, 201–2
Age of Reagan, The (Hayward), 20
Agnew, Spiro T., 293n31
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 9, 87, 95, 102, 122, 123
Alameda, Alan, 263, 311n85
American Conservative Union (ACU), 183, 298n115
American Independent Party, 104
American Life, An (Reagan), 273n11
American Medical Association (AMA), 49, 168
American Revolution, 8
Americans for Constitutional Action, 44
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 2, 183, 298n116
American South
Bush election (2000) and, 233, 234
Carter near-sweep of states where slavery had been legal (1976), 181, 297–98n111
Clinton election (1996) and, 233
Democratic Party and, 24–25, 181, 233
Eisenhower and, 24, 25
Goldwater and, 25, 78
Jim Crow laws, 24
Reagan’s landslide win (1984) and, 212
Republican Party and, 24, 25, 234
Voting Rights Act and, 201
working-class for Democrats in, 181
working-class for Reagan in, 181
working-class for Trump in, 254–55
American Veterans Committee, 2, 30
Anderson, Glenn, 80
Anderson, John, 173, 181, 297n110
Angle, Sharron, 307n22
Angola, 198
antipoverty programs, 5, 39, 73, 74, 262
See also Great Society
Atlas Shrugged (Rand), 291–92n11
Baker, Howard, 172
Baldwin, Tammy, 255, 310n73
Benny, Jack, 228–29
Bergland, David, 177
Boehner, John, 250
Boulware, Lemuel, 35
Bowron, Fletcher, 27
Boyarsky, Bill, 20, 78
Brezhnev, Leonid, 160, 199, 203, 220
Briggs, John, 166
Brokaw, Tom, 180
Brown, Pat, xiv, 43, 80, 81, 82, 101, 143, 177
campaign against Reagan, 82–83, 92–93
Buck, Ken, 307n22
Buckley, William F., Jr., 25–26, 90, 284n13
disapproval of Reagan-Gorbachev INF Treaty negotiation, 222, 304n104
as Eisenhower critic, 26–27, 69, 177
Goldwater and, 90
on government hunger programs, 89
incrementalism and, 69
libertarianism of, 69–70
mantra of, 69
National Review’s mission statement, 26
as Nixon critic, 46
opposition to civil rights legislation, 79
Panama Canal Debate, Reagan on Firing Line, 90, 286n52
Reagan and, 89–90, 187
“right-to-work” bills and, 43
bureaucracy
Congress unable to control, 38
“first rule of,” 29
government planning and, 147, 293n29
interference in private enterprise, 35
liberalism and, 83, 85
permanent government not envisioned by the Constitution, 35
Reagan and, xiii, 18, 21, 28–29, 36, 37, 38, 83, 119–20, 130, 144–45, 158
Reagan making the enemy, 38–39, 44, 72, 146–47, 164–65
remedy for, 44
as threat to freedom, 21, 36, 37, 145, 146
Burgener, Clair, 300n39
Burghardt, William, 78, 80
Bush, George H. W., 172, 197, 220, 230–31, 233
election results (1988), 231
presidential bid (1980), 172–73
Bush, George W., 162, 207–8
“compassionate conservatism,” 234–36
conservative support for, 250
election results (2000), 233–34
foreign policy, 234
Iraq War and, 235, 237
reelection (2004), 235
Social Security plan, 236, 241, 242
working-class voters and, 235, 236, 254
Bush, John Ellis “Jeb,” 252, 309n69
CAFTA, 196
California, 121
abortion law in, 113
AFDC in, 95, 102, 122, 123
Bowron campaign, 27
Brown’s campaign against Reagan, 82–83, 92–93
budget crisis, 101
conservatives and Goldwaterites in, ix, xv, 77, 101–101, 109, 111, 124, 126
Democratic control of legislature, 100, 101, 102, 105–6, 125
Democratic voters in, 93–94
Douglas campaign, 2, 22
education in, 40, 95, 96, 103, 105–6, 124
environmental issues, 100, 116, 119–20, 121, 123, 124–25, 127, 289n53
expansion of government and, 96
Kennedy presidential race, 94
Kuchel-Rafferty Senate race, 119, 288–89n52
Medi-Cal, 95, 102, 106–7, 111, 122, 123
mental health treatment programs, 103, 123, 127
Mexican Americans for Reagan, 93
New Deal programs in, 96
Nixon’s gubernatorial race, 46–47, 94, 117
property taxes, 80, 124–26, 127
Proposition 6 (anti-gay, Briggs Initiative), 166, 296n77
Proposition 18 (right-to-work), 42–43
propositions on state spending and taxes, 124–26, 127, 291n7
race relations in, 78, 80
Reagan accused of racial bias, 77–78, 81
Reagan as governor (1967–75), xv, 94–97, 99–128, 133
Reagan attacking government waste and inefficiency, 100, 102, 104–5, 109, 118
Reagan’s approval ratings, 126
Reagan’s budget defense, 109
Reagan’s “Creative Society,” xiv–xv, 72, 83–92
Reagan’s critics, 103–4, 109–13, 124, 177
Reagan’s gubernatorial campaign, 70, 71–97
Reagan’s gubernatorial election, xiv, 93, 94, 121
Reagan’s inaugural addresses, 102, 123
Reagan’s platform, xvi, 75–76, 96
Reagan’s political consultants, 75
Reagan’s presidential bid (1968), 117–18, 127
Reagan’s ranches, 128
Reagan’s spending cuts, 101–4, 124, 133
Reagan’s spending increases, 103, 105, 109, 110–11, 118
Reagan’s tax hikes, xv, 103–4, 109, 110, 118, 124
Reagan’s tax reductions and rebates, 113, 118, 125, 133, 193
Reagan’s welfare reforms, xv, 95, 107, 122–24, 128, 133, 150, 284n13, 293n27
right-to-work laws, 42–43, 83, 294–95n57
Rumford Act, 77, 78–79, 80, 107–8, 110, 112, 201–2
San Fernando Valley, 93, 120
Santa Clara County GOP, ix
student protests, 80, 81, 114, 148, 288n40
voter concerns (1960s), 80
Warren as governor, 95–96
Watts riots, 80
working-class communities, 82, 93, 94, 121
working-class support for Reagan, xvi, 93, 94, 121, 162
workman’s compensation insurance, 96
California Air Resources Board (CARB), 119
California Association of Realtors
Reagan’s speech to (1963), 49
Rumford Act and, 108
California Fertilizer Association, Reagan’s speech (1958), 39–40, 163, 261, 300n18
California Republican Assembly (CRA), 109, 113
Cannon, Lou, 20, 22, 78, 196, 288–89n52
Carter, Jimmy, 32, 172
attacks on Reagan, 92–93, 177–78
concession call to Reagan, 182
election of 1976, 181, 297–98n111
election of 1980, xvii, 174, 177–78, 180, 181, 298n112, 298n113
foreign policy of, 162
Reagan debate with, 178–80
Reagan’s criticism of, 149, 170–71, 174
Reagan’s “There you go again,” xvi, 178
Soviet Union and, 160
Castro, Fidel, 148
Catholics, 8, 18, 24
CBS
Town Meeting of the World, 115
“What About Reagan” documentary (1967), 110
Chancellor, John, 180
Cheney, Dick, 234
Chicago Tribune, Reagan interview (1948), 32, 33
Christian Right, 167, 233, 234, 239, 247
Christopher, George, 76–77
Churchill, Winston, 129, 182
citizenship. See self-government
civil rights
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 77, 78, 79, 108, 117, 177
conservatives opposing legislation, 78, 79, 109–12
Democratic Party and, 25
desegregation and, 166
Eisenhower and, 25, 112
Kennedy and, 112
liberals and, 77
Reagan’s policies on, 108, 112, 113
Republican Party and, 46
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 73
Voting Rights Act extension, 201
Claremont McKenna College, 160–61, 294n49
Clark, Ed, xvii, 131, 177
Clinton, Bill, xvii, 96, 185–86, 196, 231, 239–40, 298n112