![]() ![]() ![]() Between 1980 and the present day, American political opinion seemed to move decidedly to the right with an occasional swing to more moderate positions. The beginning of the twenty-first century also brought a new threat of worldwide terrorism, engaging the U.S. On the foreign policy front, the United States welcomed the end of the “Cold War” but found affiliation with the Soviet Union (later Russia) difficult as the countries’ interests remained at odds. Through the late twentieth and early twenty-first century the United States wrestled with a myriad of social and economic problems due to changes in demographics and technological innovation. This philosophy espoused a significant reduction in government regulation, diminished social welfare spending, and increased military spending to resurrect the American people from the economic malaise of the 1970s. The election of 1980 (the “Reagan Revolution”) signaled the completion of a movement toward “new conservatism” started in 1968.
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