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The Collapse of the Consensus?

The Collapse of the Consensus?

Ike through Reagan and parallels to today. Based in part on Godfrey Hodgson's "consensus" thesis from the book, America in Our Time

Spiro Bolos

May 12, 2022
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  1. The American free enterprise system is a fundamentally just system

    which will help the country to always remain prosperous.
  2. We must act to stop Communism and we have the

    right to do this, everywhere in the world.
  3. 1960 “I just wondered if you could give us an

    example of a major idea of his that you had adopted?”
  4. “I’m not going down in history as the first American

    President who lost a war.” — LBJ
  5. 1970 “I thought it was ‘Government for the People’?” “Yeah,

    it’s for the people, all right… …the rich people.”
  6. “If I walk out of this office, you know, on

    this [expletive] stuff, why, it would leave a mark on the American political system.”
  7. “The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is

    a crisis of confidence…that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.”
  8. The American free enterprise system is a fundamentally just system

    which will help the country to always remain prosperous.
  9. America can solve or is already solving all of its

    problems. Vietnamese “Boat People”, 1978
  10. We have faith in our leaders and our superior political

    institutions. LBJ reacts to his son-in-law’s tape from Vietnam, 1968
  11. We must act to stop Communism and we have the

    right to do this, everywhere in the world.
  12. 2021 “My fellow Americans…trickle-down economics has never worked. It’s time

    to grow the economy from the bottom and the middle out.”
  13. 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980

    1990 2000 2010 2020 Economic Equality, 1913-2015 Robert Putnam, The Upswing