Can Reaganism Make a Return?
Commentary
People tell me all the time: stop talking about Ronald Reagan. No one remembers that stuff. It’s a bit like feeling nostalgic for Calvin Coolidge. We have to move on with new messaging and new themes.
I get the point but actually the best lessons for the way forward today are readily available via a closer look at the experience of 40 years ago. And it’s not just about Reagan. It’s about the ethos that the period represented. We still have so much to learn from that. We could do much worse than to return to the fundamentals that drove that change….