March 17, 2006
Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and the Power of GOPtimism
On November 19, 1955, writing in the inaugural issue of National Review, the editor William F. Buckley said of the new magazine: "It stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so." The history that Buckley and his colleagues wanted to stop was the "radical social experimentation" and "grand designs" of "energetic social innovators." Buckley was articulating, with a verve characteristic of him but few other mid-50s conservatives, the right's classic pessimism
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