Was that the night Americans had a “temper tantrum” according to Peter Jennings of ABC because a bunch of Democratic All Stars had gotten the boot? I guess that one came later.
that would have been 1994.
No, the “temper tantrum” occurred in 1994 when the Republicans swept the Democrats out of the House, gaining their first majority in the lower chamber in forty years. Newt became Speaker as a result of that election. Reagan’s election in 1980 was, if anything, an even greater shock to the media since for them he was like a crucifix on a strand of garlic to a pack of vampires. The next day really was a morning of rebirth in America for the rest of us.
God, I miss Ronald Reagan.