In what ways was the "Reagan Revolution" a response to the political crisis on the 1960-1970's?

Answer 1

Governor Reagan was once quoted as saying :"If it takes a bloodbath to silence the demonstrators, let's get it over with." (April 7th, 1970)
I would say the only "revolution" in response to the "political crisis" of student civil right activists, dissenters, and Vietnam War protesters that Reagan called for at the time was a counter-revolution. Do they shoot down demonstrators in a democracy? However, there is a very interesting article entitled "The Educational Legacy of Ronald Reagan", written by Gary K. Clabaugh which sheds further light on this "revolutionary" figure.

Answer 2

Reagan came on when people were well sick and tired of student protests. His reign is similar to that of Napolean III who came after the revolutions of 1848. The bourgeousie had enough of all this free love crapping around and sought a benevolent dictator, much as Russians are now giving themselves up to Putin.

Answer 3

When Reagan was elected in 1980, America had over 14% inflation, because of Vietnam and Watergate people had no trust in the government system and the state of combat readiness and morale in our military was deplorable. Reagan was an optimist. He restored pride back into the American people, though his policies initially suffered a few setbacks he reinvigorated the American economy, so much so that our friends in Europe asked him to slow down. Our military pride and honor was restored. His leadership eventually got inflation to a bearable level (low single digits) and unemployment also got lower. Some whiners call the 80's the decade of greed, to me it was our finest hour!

Answer 4

The United Stated and The USSR were in a race to see who could go bankrupt first and the USSR barely won out