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« on: June 09, 2017, 10:08:09 PM » |
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The liberal/Left consensus that governed the First World beginning after the end of WWII started coming apart in the late 1970s. You saw this with:
1976: Jimmy Carter - first Democratic president of the modern era who made no attempts to expand domestic social programs in any way; carried out an agenda of deregulation and tight monetary policy
1977: Menachem Begin - demolished the Mapai/Labor-dominated social democratic consensus that had existed in Israel since its founding; combined market liberalism with religious-influenced social conservatism
1979: Margaret Thatcher - we'll spell privatisation with an "s"
1980: Ronald Reagan
1984: Brian Mulroney in Canada
This belatedly happened in the Second and Third Worlds in the 1990s after the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union dissolved.
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