All the nations will continue in this direction. Putin will attempt land reforms. Fox will attempt energy sector reforms. He will also try for Mexican Constitutional reforms. Should we blame him if he fails. No. After all Zedillo couldn't get it thru the PRI controlled Mexican Congress and he was a PRI member. On the other hand Zedillo did get political reforms passed that enabled PAN Fox to be elected.
Let me remind you that a market economy includes a free flow of good/services, capital, and labor. The opposition to a market economy exists everywhere and it is fierce. But wherever you go, to whichever country, the opposition is always the left and the right against the middle. In Mexico that is anti-reform wing of the PRI party aligning with the PRD socialist party against the PAN party and the moderate members of PRI. In spite of what FITZ says, the Mexican moneyed elite is the anti-reform group, and Fox is not a member of that club. The opposition alliance in the US is exactly the same. Did you see Pat Buchanan holding hands with the socialists in Seattle? Solidarity!
Will there be setbacks? Yes, Gov Davis has tried to re-establish the Crowning Heights. The socialists are winning some elections in South America. But you see, the Reagan/Thatcher movement is only 20 years old..........
First, you try to paint Americans against massive, out-of-control, legal immigration and unlimited illegal immigration as racist, "knuckledraggers". Even though a majority of all American citizens of all colors and races feel the same way about immigration.
Now, you want to pin all of the 'Borderless', 'One-World', 'New World Order', 'Globalist' crap of the last 20 years on Reagan and Thatcher.
The "middle" you're talking about is the flaming, far left and the wealthy elites (as in Hollywood and Ivy League, braindead elites) that you're trying to pass off as the "middle". The only middle Bush is in is the middle of a mid-life crisis.
Try again you "knuckledragging" race-baiter.