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Tuesday, May 24. 2016

The End of Left and Right

The Z-man is onto something here: The End of Left and Right


I am not sure how new it is, though. The masses of voters were never strongly ideological, just the pundits. Donald Trump is post-ideolological, which is why he could win an election.


Barry Goldwater and Rand Paul were ideological. Well, Reagan was too, in some ways, but he was more American Flag primarily. Like The Donald is. How much did Reagan do to advance the Conservative agenda?  Not too much. He was handcuffed. I wish he could have accomplished more such as eliminating entire federal departments.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:28 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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There is nothing new about it. Globalization vs. localization is just another name for centralization vs. decentralization.
#1 Abelard Lindsey on 2016-05-24 16:01 (Reply)
I don't know if it is the end of Left and Right but certainly the appeal of a unique American identity and sovereignty supercedes ideology, for now. Whether it will prevail or not remains to be seen. Yet it is heartening that at least among men it still does.
#2 Exasperated on 2016-05-24 17:58 (Reply)
Reagan did break the trend lines for new regulations and discretionary spending. But it was mostly bringing things back to the long term trend. Although he did well on discretionary spending but Bush I fixed that.

So Reagan did well advancing the PR Conservative agenda, but the Conservatives hated him for doing what they say they want.
#3 JK Brown on 2016-05-24 19:38 (Reply)

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