March 12, 2017

"According to a popular view among political scientists and pundits is that policy changes and the political consensus that sustain are the outcome of a series of battles of ideas—'It’s the Zeitgeist, Stupid!'

This interpretation suggests that the center of the American political discourse has been shifting in a more right-wing direction since the so-called Reagan Revolution, changing the contours of political discourse, and mainstreaming free-market ideas that once were considered beyond the pale, leading eventually to policy changes."

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http://nationalinterest.org/feature/americas-old-foreign-policy-consensus-back-19758

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