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Article: The Editor's Desk.(The Editor's Desk)(Editorial)
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- Newsweek
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- January 28, 2008
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Byline: Jon Meacham
For many, the rise of Ronald Reagan happened the day before yesterday. But it has, in fact, been a long while: the Battle of Britain and Tet Offensive are as proximate in time as we are to 1980. For a great spell, then, American politics has been shaped, directly and indirectly, by the coalition of voters and interests Reagan brought together: fiscal conservatives, foreign-policy hawks and politically conservative evangelicals. The Republican Party he built held competitive primaries, but the seasons were short and the GOP instinct for orderliness tended to assert itself early on, which meant that George H. W. Bush, Bob Dole and George W. Bush ...