By William Kleinknecht
Considering that Ronald Reagan left office—and fairly after his death—his shadow has loomed huge over American politics: Republicans and lots of Democrats have waxed nostalgic, extolling the Republican culture he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his skills as a communicator.This conscientiously calibrated photo is entire fiction, argues award-winning journalist William Kleinknecht. The Reagan presidency used to be epoch shattering, yet not—as his propagandists may have it—because it invigorated deepest company or made the US believe powerful back. His actual legacy was once the dismantling of an eight-decade interval of reform within which operating humans got an unparalleled sway over our politics, our financial system, and our tradition. Reagan halted this nearly overnight.In the culture of Thomas Frank’s What’s the problem with Kansas?, Kleinknecht explores heart America—starting with Reagan’s place of birth of Dixon, Illinois—and exhibits that because the Reagan legend grows, his actual legacy keeps to decimate center the USA.
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He was loved for his political courage and his abiding concern for the workingman, not his angular physique. But on the morning of April 27, 1981, even those formidable assets, the energy and boundless enthusiasm that had sustained him throughout his public life, were about to fail him. He could not have chosen a worse time to lose his political footing. With Reagan’s election the previous November and the Republicans’ new majority in the Senate, Democratic control of the House was the last liberal fortification blocking the advance of the Reagan Revolution.
Tip had never been a robust physical specimen. His body was always as pink and round as a brisket, a vestige of North Cambridge taverns and dinners of red meat and Scotch at Duke Ziebert’s on Capitol Hill. His hair was a white mop which, like Tantalus, he was condemned to keep brushing futilely away from his eyes. He was loved for his political courage and his abiding concern for the workingman, not his angular physique. But on the morning of April 27, 1981, even those formidable assets, the energy and boundless enthusiasm that had sustained him throughout his public life, were about to fail him.
Nationally, median family income fell by 19 percent in those two decades. Dixon bears all of the dreary stamps of Reaganism: deregulated commerce, decimated labor unions, a starving public sector, privatization, corporate mergers, and the growth of temporary work. Government once would have shielded Dixon from the harshest predations of corporate America, but the town’s fate is now subject to the vagaries of the market. Because deregulation relieved telecommunications companies of the requirement that they serve underdeveloped areas, broadband Internet service came to Dixon years after it was a staple of life in Wilmette.