When I was a teenager, George Harmon came to town with the crazy idea that a small, liberal arts school, like Millsaps College, could host a business school modeled after the famous Harvard School of Business.
I don’t know why people liked Reagan except that he was conservative in social matters and liberal (in the way Europeans use the term) in business matters. Since Trumps first term, Democrats have been blaming themselves (ourselves) for abandoning the workers in the rust belt. Free trade was a much bigger factor, but so was Reagan’s union-busting. Unions, though as corrupt as the business community and the politicians, were what kept working-class people in the game and grew the middle class in America. At least that is what I believe. The Reagan years marked the beginning decline in the voice of working-class people in our country, and the end result was they had no power. And the Republican party, noted for its advocacy for free trade and conservative values, has exploited their grievances so successfully that great numbers of them vote against their own interest in every national election.
I don’t know why people liked Reagan except that he was conservative in social matters and liberal (in the way Europeans use the term) in business matters. Since Trumps first term, Democrats have been blaming themselves (ourselves) for abandoning the workers in the rust belt. Free trade was a much bigger factor, but so was Reagan’s union-busting. Unions, though as corrupt as the business community and the politicians, were what kept working-class people in the game and grew the middle class in America. At least that is what I believe. The Reagan years marked the beginning decline in the voice of working-class people in our country, and the end result was they had no power. And the Republican party, noted for its advocacy for free trade and conservative values, has exploited their grievances so successfully that great numbers of them vote against their own interest in every national election.