We’ll see about that.
No, we won’t. The fact is, Reagan transformed American conservatism for over 190 years from a nationalist economic policy to an internationalist policy, with some important exceptions.
Reagan did not have the advantage of seeing what many of these internationalist policies would do, because in the SHORT RUN jobs were up, saving was up, etc. But in the long run, American industries started to get hollowed out. And because Reagan was correctly focused on the near term danger of defeating the USSR, and because the short run numbers all looked good, we all thought it was a workable policy. It wasn’t. Clinton perpetuated it, and got another decade of job growth out of it, while there was a fundamental shift going on within the economy. It was becoming obvious, though, by the end of the 1990s that the middle class was being destroyed as was American manufacturing and industry.
So, you’ll see in short order a repositioning of the American economy to the principles of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, and Calvin Coolidge. (Ike is an exception because the world destruction was so great any economy of any sort could pretty well have dominated trade and manufacturing simply because it wasn’t in rubble).
What he meantws athat the Republican Party is no longer the Step n’ Fetchit for these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKwO1onXAaI&list=RDbKwO1onXAaI#t=127
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4wU9ZnAKAw